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).
Scientists know that the universe is expanding. Thus, while scientists might see a spot that lay 13.8 billion light-years from Earth at the time of the Big Bang, the universe has continued to expand over its lifetime.Today, that same spot is 46 billion light-years away, making the diameter of the observable universe a sphere around 92 billion light-years.[ VIDEO: Oldest Light in the Universe: How it Traveled to Us ]. Centering a sphere on Earth's location in space might seem to put mankind in the center of the universe.oday, that same spot is 46 billion light-years away, making the diameter of the observable universe a sphere around 92 billion light-years. [ VIDEO: Oldest Light in the Universe: How it Traveled to Us ].