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At its closest (perihelion), the distance to Uranus from the star is 1.7 billion miles (2.5 billion km); at its farthest (aphelion), 1.89 billion miles (3 billion km).
From an average distance of 1.8 billion miles (2.9 billion kilometers), Uranus is about 19 astronomical units away from the Sun. One astronomical unit (abbreviated as AU), is the distance from the Sun to Earth.
From an average distance of 1.8 billion miles (2.9 billion kilometers), Uranus is 19.8 astronomical units away from the Sun. One astronomical unit (abbreviated as AU), is the distance from the Sun to Earth.
Uranus is roughly 1.8169 billion miles away from Earth. This is obviously a vast difference and in fact it is so far that it takes almost 3 hours for light reflected off of the planet’s surface to reach us on earth.
The mean distance of Uranus from the Sun is nearly 2.9 billion km (1.8 billion miles), more than 19 times as far as Earth, and it never approaches Earth more closely than about 2.7 billion km (1.7 billion miles).
Distance from the Sun: The seventh planet from the Sun, it orbits at a distance of about 1.8 billion miles (2.9 billion km), more than 19 times farther than Earth’s orbit.
The closest Uranus can get to Earth is 2.57 billion km. Imagine Earth, Uranus and the Sun are all in straight line. When Uranus is at its closest point to Earth, the three objects are lined...