The following Cities are next to Lee's Summit, MO: 1  Kansas City is 17 miles northwest of Lee's Summit, MO. 2  Independence is 11.9 miles north of Lee's Summit, MO. 3  Greenwood is 5.2 miles southeast of Lee's Summit, MO. 4  Lake Lotawana is 6.5 miles east of Lee's Summit, MO. 5  Lake Winnebago is 6.6 miles south of Lee's Summit, MO.
Putting the Size of the Observable Universe in Perspective. The age of the universe is about 13.75 billion years. The diameter of the observable universe is estimated at about 28 billion parsecs (93 billion light-years). As a reminder, a light-year is a unit of length equal to just under 10 trillion kilometres (or about 6 trillion miles).
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