kpc\text{kpc}

kiloparsec

Lengthexact by definition

A kiloparsec is one thousand parsecs, about 3.086 × 10¹⁹ metres or 3,262 light-years. It is the unit of galactic structure: the sun sits roughly 8 kpc from the centre of the Milky Way, the galactic disc is about 30 kpc across, and its scale height is a few hundred parsecs.

1 kpc\text{kpc} 3.0856776e+19 m\text{m}

One kiloparsec in every length unit

1.90915e+54Planck length (lP)
3.08568e+34femtometer (fm)
3.08568e+31picometer (pm)
5.83109e+29bohr radius (a0)
3.08568e+29angstrom (Å)
3.08568e+28nanometer (nm)
3.08568e+25micrometer (μm)
1.21483e+24thou (thou)
8.74680e+22point (pt)
3.08568e+22millimeter (mm)
7.28900e+21pica (pc)
3.08568e+21centimeter (cm)
1.21483e+21inch (in)
3.08568e+20decimeter (dm)
3.03708e+20hand (hh)
1.53388e+20link (li)
1.01236e+20foot (ft)
1.01236e+20US survey foot (ftUS)
3.37454e+19yard (yd)
3.08568e+19meter (m)
1.68727e+19fathom (ftm)
6.13552e+18rod (rd)
1.53388e+18chain (ch)
1.66613e+17cable length (cb)
1.53388e+17furlong (fur)
3.08568e+16kilometer (km)
1.91735e+16mile (mi)
1.66613e+16nautical mile (nmi)
6.39117e+15league (lea)
30,856,800,000,000megameter (Mm)
4,843,320,000,000Earth radius (REarth)
102,927,000,000light-second (ls)
80,272,800,000lunar distance (LD)
44,353,600,000solar radius (Rsun)
1,715,450,000light-minute (lmin)
206,265,000astronomical unit (AU)
3,261.56light-year (ly)
1,000parsec (pc)
1kiloparsec (kpc)this unit
0.001megaparsec (Mpc)
0.000001gigaparsec (Gpc)