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).
The stellar disk of the Milky Way Galaxy is approximately 100,000 light-years (9Ã1017 km) (6Ã1017 mi) in diameter, and is considered to be, on average, about 1,000 light-years (9Ã1015 km) thick. It is estimated to contain at least 200 billion stars and possibly up to 400 billion. 1 person found this useful.