What is "astronomical units"

Usage examples of "astronomical units".

Ejected previously into space far from the collapsar, cameras took pictures of the planet, using no little aperture: two astronomical units.

Many astronomical units removed, it would still have burned out his eyes.

After her last zero-zero leap, Envoy paused a while, some seven astronomical units from her goal.

Jupiter takes almost 12 years to complete its trip around the sun at a mean distance of some five astronomical units.

Much farther, at about 100,000 astronomical units, are some billions of tailless comets, kilometer-size snowballs slowly circling the distant sun.

From somewhat farther away, say a few hundred thousand astronomical units, the sun would appear to the uninitiated eye as a bright star with no hint of its retinue of planets.

Five hundred and fifty astronomical units to the solar focus, that's only eighty-odd billion kilometers.

Many nearby stars are surrounded by thin disks of orbiting gas and dust, often extending to hundreds of astronomical units (AU) from the local star (the outermost planets, Neptune and Pluto, are about 40 AU from our Sun).

From lunar space, your power had to come, at the speed of light, from a little matter of forty astronomical units, or just under six billion kilometers away.

I won't go any farther away from the Stardust than a few astronomical units.

At the fifty astronomical units she had judged was a prudent distance for arrival, it gave two-fifths the blaze that fell on Asborg or Earth, luridly blue-white.

And five thousand astronomical units away, they were doing what occurred to them to do, and by the time my orders arrived all the questions would be moot.