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by d--b 3064 days ago
Distance Earth-Sun = 1 AU

1e6 AU = 15.81 light years.

Somebody did not pick up the 'e6' part...

2 comments

Pretty much. The sidebar references Wikipedia's List of brightest stars [1]. That table has the distance from Earth to the Sun in lightyears. So maybe a parsing problem with 0.000015813. On the January 21st this was changed from 0.000 015 813, so it may have been parsing that wrong.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_brightest_stars#Main_t...