Light year, the Distance travelled by light in a year. .. The general unit for distance is meters... so light travels at 300 000 000 m/s. 60 seconds in 1 minute. 60 minutes in 1 hour. 24 hours in 1 day. 365 days in a year. So 300000000 x 60 x 60 x 24 x 365 = 9.46x10^15 m.
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One light year is equivalent to approximately 9.461 x 10^15 meters. This distance can be converted to the standard SI unit by multiplying the number of light years by this conversion factor.
The SI standard unit for length is the meter (m).
The SI unit of length is the meter. Multiply the number of light-years by 9.5 x 1015.
587 light years is a unit of distance, not time. It represents the distance that light travels in 587 years.
Light years or parsecs
* The SI unit for speed is meters/second. This unit doesn't have any special name.* In general, you can use any unit of length, divided by any unit of time.