The Sun is 93 million miles (1 AU) from Earth; a passenger aircraft flying around the Sun's diameter (about 100 times Earth's radius) would take roughly a year, illustrating the Sun's vast scale relative to human-built objects.
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“the so-called astronomical unit, 93 million miles... it'd take something like a year to fly around the sun in a passenger aircraft.”
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