How to Use astronomical unit in a Sentence

astronomical unit

noun

• One astronomical unit is equal to the distance between the Earth and the sun.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 16 Oct. 2019
• Bannister refers is an astronomical unit, which is the mean distance from the center of the earth to the center of the sun.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 11 July 2016
• The distance between Earth and the sun is one astronomical unit.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 26 July 2021
• Some simple numbers to spell it out: Distance in the solar system is measured in astronomical units (AU), which is the distance between Earth and the sun.
  — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 13 Dec. 2018
• Astronomers call these, the ones that approach within 1.3 astronomical units of the sun, near-Earth asteroids.
  — Conor Feehly, Discover Magazine, 12 July 2023
• To be sure, these planets — the two largest in our solar system — are far apart from each other, about 4.5 times the average distance between the Earth and the sun, what’s considered one astronomical unit.
  — Marisol Chávez, Dallas News, 21 Dec. 2020
• The radio burst’s complex, magnetized environment is within about an astronomical unit (the distance between Earth and the sun) from its source, the researchers found.
  — Kristen Rogers, CNN, 23 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024