astronomical unit in English

noun
1
a unit of measurement equal to 149.6 million kilometers, the mean distance from the center of the earth to the center of the sun.
Bodies that formed from the Sun out to a distance of about 2.5 astronomical units are primarily rocky and metallic.

Use "astronomical unit" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "astronomical unit" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "astronomical unit", or refer to the context using the word "astronomical unit" in the English Dictionary.

1. Light - year is an astronomical unit.

2. This distance is known as the astronomical unit’ or AU.

3. The distance from the sun to earth is one astronomical unit.

4. An astronomical unit is the distance between Earth and our sun.

5. One astronomical unit equals the distance from the earth to the sun.

6. One astronomical unit is the distance between the Earth and the sun.

7. Know astronomical unit and light year are used for expressing the distance between celestial bodies.

8. One astronomical unit is equal to the average radius of the Earth's orBit, aBout 000, 000 miles.

9. In the non-normative Annex C to ISO 80000-3 (2006), the symbol of the astronomical unit is "ua".

10. One astronomical unit is the distance between the Earth and the sun, about 93 million miles (150 million km).

11. Examples of this are “avionics” (from “aviation electronics”) and “parsec” (from parallax and second), an astronomical unit equal to 3.26 light-years.

12. The parsec (parallax arcsecond) is defined in terms of the astronomical unit, being the distance of an object with a parallax of 1 arcsecond.

13. Most planet-formation models predict a “planet desert” within one astronomical unit (or the average distance from the Earth to the sun) of a host star.

14. But now, the crystalloid has been detected two astronomical unit distances away from earth, and it is flying to the earth accurately with its precipitous unnatural orbit.

15. Astronomická jednotka (doporučená značka jednotky au z anglického astronomical unit, nebo ua z francouzského unité astronomique; běžně se používá i značka AU, případně UA, obě zavedené dříve platnými normami) je jednotka vzdálenosti, používaná v astronomii, původně definovaná jako střední vzdálenost Země od Slunce.