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A lightyear is a unit of what?

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∙ 14y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

A light-year is a unit of distance - the distance travelled by light in a year. Light travels 300,000 km in a second, so a light-year is about 9.5 x 1012 (9.5 million million) kilometers.

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