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Astronomical Units (AU)
How big are they? "AU" is a measure of distance based on the radius of Earth's orbit around the sun. It is a distance equal to 149,600,000 km (93,000,000 miles). The distances within a star system, between binary components, for instance, are usually measured in AU's.
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