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If we were to speak in meters, then the Sun would be 150.4 billion meters away from Earth. The Earth orbits the Sun once every 365.3 days, while farther planets such as Mars, completes an orbit around the Sun in 687 days. For comparison, Mars is 1.5 AU away from the Sun, which would translate to 227.94 million km / 141.70 million mi.
The planet Earth orbits the sun in roughly 365 days but this is not in a perfectly circular orbit. As such we are slightly differing distances from this massive star throughout the year. On average we are 93 million miles (150 million kilometers) away from the sun, sometimes closer or further away depending on our orbit.
The Sun Profile. diameter: 1,390,000 km. mass: 1.989e30 kg. temperature: 5800 K (surface) 15,600,000 K (core) History of The Sun. The Sun is by far the largest object in the solar system. It contains more than 99.8% of the total mass of the Solar System (Jupiter contains most of the rest). It is often said that the Sun is an "ordinary" star.
In contrast light reaches Earth in just over 8 minutes which should give you some idea of how much further away Mars is from the Sun as opposed to the distance between the Sun and Earth. At an average of 142 million miles from the Sun at any one time there is a vast distance between the two.
This extra day takes Earth’s calendar year to 366 days with the extra day being attached to the end of February. To be completely accurate then Earth’s orbital period is 365.2422 days long. This is the exact amount of time it takes our planet to complete its journey around the Sun.
This is due to a very intense greenhouse effect and the close proximity to the sun. Venus’s diameter is 12,103.6 km (7,520.8 mi) which is only 638.4 km less than Earth’s. Its mass is roughly 81.5% of Earth’s which means in size the two planets are very similar. Its dense atmosphere consists of 96.5% carbon dioxide, with most of the rest ...
Light takes over 4 hours to reach Neptune from the Sun in comparison to the 8 minutes it takes for light to reach Earth. An astronomical unit (AU) is equal to the distance from the Sun to the Earth and Neptune is 30 AU from our solar system’s star. This equates on average to 2.8 billion miles (4.5 billion kilometers).
According to NASA the two planets will not be as close again until 2237. The furthest apart the two planets will be is 250 million miles which means on average Earth and Mars are 140 million miles apart. This distance varies based on the respective planets positions in their orbits of the Sun.
Since all the planets move around, the distane is always changing. On average, Jupiter is 715 million km / 444 million mi away from the Earth. At their closest points, Jupiter and Earth are 588 million km / 365 million mi away from each other. At their farthest points, Jupiter and Earth are 968 million km / 601 million mi.
The main reason for the planets to vary their distance is due to elliptical orbits. No planet in our Solar System orbits the sun in a perfect circle which means that the distance between planets is never the same. For this reason, to calculate the distance, we use the average to measure how far planets are from one another.