Map of the Universe
Nearest stars
A view about 24 light-years across · Stellar neighbourhood
The stars within about a dozen light-years of the Sun: Proxima Centauri and Alpha Centauri at 4.2–4.4 light-years, Barnard’s Star, Wolf 359, Sirius and a handful of red dwarfs.
On the map at this scale
Stars
- 61 Cygni
- Alpha Centauri B
- Barnard's Star
- Epsilon Eridani
- Epsilon Indi
- EZ Aqr
- Fomalhaut
- GJ 1111
- GJ 3622
- Gl 1
- Gl 380
- Kapteyn's Star
- Lacaille 8760
- Lacaille 9352
- Lalande 21185
- Procyon
- Proxima Centauri
- Ross 128
- Ross 154
- Ross 248
- Sirius
- Struve 2398 A
- Tau Ceti
- Van Maanen's Star
- Wolf 359
Regions, structures and cosmic epochs
Every scale, from Earth outwards
- Earth and Moon 0.008 AU
- Inner planets 4 AU
- Jupiter's orbit 14 AU
- Neptune and the Kuiper belt 110 AU
- Heliopause and Voyagers 400 AU
- Oort cloud 4 light-years
- Nearest stars 24 light-years
- 100 light-years 220 light-years
- 1,000 light-years 2,400 light-years
- Local Arm 12,000 light-years
- Galactic centre 13,000 light-years
- Milky Way 160,000 light-years
- Magellanic Clouds 520,000 light-years
- Satellite galaxies 2 million light-years
- Local Group 10 million light-years
- Council of Giants 36 million light-years
- Virgo Supercluster 230 million light-years
- Laniakea 850 million light-years
- Nearby superclusters 2.3 billion light-years
- Cosmic web 11 billion light-years
- Observable universe 100 billion light-years