| Distance in meters Powers of ten |
Name | Example |
| 10-18 | attometer | |
| 10-17 | ||
| 10-16 | ||
| 10-15 | femtometer | Quarks |
| 10-14 | Nucleus of a carbon atom | |
| 10-13 | ||
| 10-12 | picometer | |
| 10-11 | ||
| 10-10 | 1 Angstrom | Atom |
| 10-9 | nanometer | Width of DNA chain |
| 10-8 | Wavelength of X-rays | |
| 10-7 | Size of a virus Wavelength of visible light |
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| 10-6 | micrometer | |
| 10-5 | Size of a red blood cell | |
| 10-4 | Thickness of a human hair | |
| 10-3 | millimeter | Diameter of a grain of sand |
| 10-2 | centimeter | |
| 10-1 | decimeter | |
| 100 | meter | Height of a human |
| 101 | ||
| 102 | Distance sound travels in 1 second in air on Earth | |
| 103 | kilometer | |
| 104 | ||
| 105 | ||
| 106 | 1000 kilometers | Melbourne to Syndey |
| 107 | Diameter of the Earth | |
| 108 | Distance light travels in 1 second in a vacuum | |
| 109 | Distance of the moon from Earth | |
| 1010 | Distance the Earth travels in 4 days | |
| 1011 | Distance from Sun to Earth | |
| 1012 | ||
| 1013 | Size of the solar system | |
| 1014 | ||
| 1015 | ||
| 1016 | Distance light travels in a year Distance to nearest star, Centauri |
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| 1017 | ||
| 1018 | ||
| 1019 | ||
| 1020 | ||
| 1021 | Diameter of our galaxy (Milky Way) | |
| 1022 | Distance to Andromeda galaxy | |
| 1023 | ||
| 1024 | ||
| 1025 | ||
| 1026 | ||
| 1027 | ||
| 1028 | ||
| 1029 | ||
| 1030 |