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When is it useful to use astronomical units and light years for measuring distances in space?

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Answer: hope this helps

The light year is used to measure distances in space because the distances are so big that a large unit of distance is required

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It is useful to use light years when you have to measure a super long distance as a light is approximately 6 trillion miles. And astronomical units are known as measurements within our solar system.

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