A petametre (American spelling: petameter) (symbol: Pm) is a unit of length equal to 10¹⁵ metres.

Petametres could be used for measuring interstellar distances, but astronomers have been long accustomed to using light-years (about 9.5 petametres) and parsecs (about 31 petametres) instead.

• 1 Pm is equal to 6685 AU
• 1 light-year is equal to 9.46 Pm
• 1 parsec is equal to 30.86 Pm
• the distance to Proxima Centauri is 40 Pm
• the distance to Sirius is 81 Pm
• the distance to Vega is 237 Pm
• light travels the distance of 1 Pm in 38.6 days (38 d 14 h 34 min 1 s)

See also: 1 E15 m, SI, metre, SI prefix, Orders of magnitude, light year, parsec

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