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About these units
League (Statute) (st.league)
The statute league was historically defined as 3 statute miles (~4.828 km). It originated as a measure of distance a person could travel on foot in about an hour. Leagues were widely used in exploration, mapping, and maritime navigation prior to the universal adoption of standardized miles and kilometers. They also appear extensively in literature, conveying narrative distances in a way more relatable to the human scale. Though obsolete in modern usage, the statute league provides cultural and historical context for maps, journals, and records from the 16th through 19th centuries.
Kiloparsec (kpc)
A kiloparsec, equal to 1,000 parsecs, is used to express distances on the scale of large stellar groups, spiral arm structures, and galactic dimensions. The Milky Way, for instance, spans roughly 30 kpc in diameter, and the Sun is located about 8 kpc from the galactic center. Kiloparsecs provide a natural scale for modeling galactic rotation curves, star cluster distributions, and gravitational interactions between galactic features. Using parsecs alone would result in very large numbers, while megaparsecs would be too large for most galactic phenomena. The unit is essential in cosmology and astrophysics, where researchers examine interstellar distances, halo sizes, and the spatial arrangement of star-forming regions. The kpc helps create an intuitive sense of the Milky Way's architecture and the scale of galactic environments.