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How many years is a light year

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10,108 earth years equals 1 light year
User Yorkshirespud
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A "light year" is not an amount of time.

It's an amount of distance ... the distance that light travels
through space in one year.

1 light year = 5,878,625,372,000 miles
(rounded to the nearest thousand miles)

1 light-year = 9,460,730,473,000 kilometers
(rounded to the nearest thousand kilometers)




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