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Betelgeuse is 600 ly from Earth Calculate the distance in kilometres

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Answer:

5.68 x 10¹⁵ km

Step-by-step explanation:

Recall that 1 lightyear = 9.461 x 10¹² km

hence

600 lightyears

= 600 x 9.461 x 10¹²

= 5.6766 x 10¹⁵

= 5.68 x 10¹⁵ km (rounded)

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