astronomical distance

noun

1. the distance from one celestial body to another, measured in astronomical units, light-years, or parsecs.

Example Sentences

Both stars are absolute beasts, blasting out fierce amounts of light, but across that astronomical distance their brilliance is diminished to naked-eye invisibility.

From Scientific American

To understand what this means, you must first appreciate that a parsec is a measure of astronomical distance and that a megaparsec is the equivalent of a million parsecs.

From The Guardian

It is a challenge to find a topic in astronomy that does not rely on the astronomical distance scale — a collection of methods applied in series to determine distances that are too large to be measured directly.

From Nature

The foundations of the astronomical distance scale are trigonometric parallaxes for individual stars.

From Nature

For science fiction writers ranged across the astronomical distance that separates Edgar Rice Burroughs and Kim Stanley Robinson, Mars has been a theatre of dreams, variously realistic.

From The Guardian