The average distance between Earth and the Moon is about 384,000 km. That’s large enough to fit every planet in the solar system side by side with room to spare. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are enormous, but space itself is even bigger—proving once again that distances in our cosmic neighborhood are easy to underestimate.
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