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).
Because the universe was born 13.8 billion years ago, we can only observe objects up to a certain distance from Earth â light from more distant objects hasnât had time to reach us yet. And to answer âhow many stars are there,â we must limit the discussion to what we can observe. Astronomers estimate that the observable universe has more than 100 billion galaxies. Our own Milky Way is home to around 300 billion stars, but itâs not representative of galaxies in general. The Milky Way is a titan compared to abundant but faint dwarf galaxies, and it in turn is dwarfed by rare giant elliptical galaxies, which can be 20 times more massive.