Light year

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A light-year or light year (symbol: ly) is a unit of measurement of length, specifically the distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.

A light-year is equal to:

  • 9,460,730,472,580.8 km (about 9.461 Pm)
  • 5,878,625,373,183.61 statute miles
  • about 63,241 astronomical units
  • about 0.3066 parsecs

15.8×10-6 ly - One astronomical unit (the distance from the Sun to the Earth, 93 Million miles). It takes approximately 8.31 minutes for light to travel this distance.

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