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1. How are the speed of light and a light-year different?

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-Speed of light is the fastest speed ever imaginable. No object having a mass can go faster than light.

Light year is the distance traveled by light, if it moves continuously for 1 whole year, or roughly 365 days.

Step-by-step explanation:

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Unlike the speed of your car when running errands, the speed of light is constant throughout the universe and is known to high precision. ... To find the distance of a light-year, you multiply this speed by the number of hours in a year (8,766). The result: One light-year equals 5,878,625,370,000 miles (9.5 trillion km).

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