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).
Understanding sizes and distances in the Universe: scale model of solar system, galaxy, distances to galaxies, size of Universe. On a 1-to-10 billion scale, the sun is the size of a grapefruit, Earth is a ball point about 15 meters away, and the nearest stars are thousands of kilometers away. Our galaxy has so many stars that it would take them thousands of years just to count them. -If our galaxy was the size a football field, Earth would be a microscopic dot on the 20-yard line. -Every grain of sand on every beach on Earth added together equals the amount of stars in the observable universe.