1) About six trillion miles 2) Astronomical distance 3) Easy two semesters at school 4) Exclusively Saxon word 5) Exclusively Anglo word 6) Nearly 6 trillion miles 7) Slow period for business 8) Unit of distance in astronomy 9) Word of purely Anglo origin 10) Word with Anglo-Saxon origins
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A light-year (symbol: ly), sometimes written light year or lightyear, is a unit of length used in astronomy, though it is sometimes mistaken for a unit of time. It is equal to just under 10 trillion kilometres (or about 6 trillion miles). As defined by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), a light-year is the distance that light travels in v...
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Distance travelled by light in one year
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• The distance over which light can travel in a year`s time; -- used as a unit in expressing stellar distances. It is more than 63,000 times as great as the distance from the earth to the sun.
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The distance light travels in one year, approximately 9.46 trillion km (5.88 trillion miles).
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in astronomy, the distance traveled by light moving in a vacuum in the course of one year, at its accepted velocity of 299,792,458 metres per second ... [2 related articles]
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(ly) The distance traveled by light, moving at 300,000 km per sec (186,282 miles per sec), in one year – about 9.406 trillion km (5.88 trillion miles or 63,240 AU). The nearest star, Proxima Centauri, lies at a distance of 4.28 light-years or just over 40 trillion km (25 t...
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A unit of length used in astronomy which equals the distance light travels in a year. At the rate of 300,000 kilometers per second (671 million miles per hour), 1 light-year is equivalent to 9.46053 × 1012 km, 5,880,000,000,000 miles or 63,240 AU
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A light year is the distance light can travel in a year. Light travels at 186,282 miles per second, so one can see that this is truly a gigantic distance. Yet in some respects it is still quite small. The nearest star to our sun is over four light years away, and the galaxy itself is about 100,000 light years across.
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The distance traveled by light in one year, equal to 9.4607E12 km (5.88 *10E12 miles or 63,240 AU).
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A measure of distance, the distance light travels in one year, about 63,197 AU.
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Light year (Astron.) The distance over which light can travel in a year's time; -- used as a unit in expressing stellar distances. It is more than 63,000 times as great as the distance from the earth to the sun.
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Distance that light travels in the vacuum of space in one year. Approximately 9.7 trillion kilometers.
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An astronomical unit of measure equal to the distance light travels in a year, approximately 5.8 trillion miles.
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A measure of distance - the distance light travels in one year at 671 mph - 9.5 million million km (US trillion) or 63,240 AU.
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The distance light travels in a year, at the rate of 300,000 kilometers per second (671 million miles per hour); 1 light-year is equivalent to 9.46053e12 km, 5,880,000,000,000 miles or 63,240 AU .
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n] - the distance that light travels in a vacuum in 1 year
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units used t o measure distance in space. One light- year is the distance light can travel in one year, which is about 6,000,000,000,000 (6 trillion) miles, or 9,500,000,000,000 kilometers
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units used t o measure distance in space. One light-year is the distance light can travel in one year, which is about 6,000,000,000,000 (6 trillion) miles, or 9,500,000,000,000 kilometers
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The light year is defined as the distance travelled by electromagnetic radiation in one tropical year.Abbreviation ly1 light year = 9.46052973x10
15mttle='Distance';xiunt='m';yiunt='light year';mconv=9.46052973e15;cconv=0.0; See also: Astronomical Unit.
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The distance travelled in a year at the speed of light.
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light-year noun the distance that light travels in a vacuum in 1 year; 5.88 trillion miles or 9.46 trillion kilometers
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Distance travelled by a beam of light in a vacuum in one year. It is equal to approximately 9.4605 × 10
12 km/5.9128 × 10
12mi
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The distance which a ray of light would travel in one year. This is about 6,000,000,000,000 (6 trillion) miles.
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units used t o measure distance in space. One light- year is the distance light can travel in one year, which is about 6,000,000,000,000 (6 trillion) miles, or 9,500,000,000,000 kilometers
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