is 1.30 parsecs (4.24 light-years) away. The distance to the open cluster Pleiades is between 120 and 140 parsecs (between 390 and 460 light-years). The center of the Milky Way is more than 8 kpc (about 27,000 light-years) from the Earth, and the Milky Way is roughly 34 kpc (110,000 light-years) across.