In vacuum it is approx 9.46E+15 metres or 9.46 billion kilometres.
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No. A light-year is a measurement. A light year is a distance measurement based on how far light travels in a year.
A light year is a unit of distance equal to the distance that light travels in one year. Light travels at approximately 186,282 miles per second, so in one year it covers about 5.88 trillion miles.
A light year is a unit of distance, not time. It is the distance that light travels in one year, which is approximately 5.88 trillion miles (9.46 trillion kilometers). This distance is often used in astronomy to describe vast distances in space.
Light travels about 300 attometers in one yoctosecond.
The speed of light is about 300,000 kilometers per second (3 x 108 meters per second); the distance light travels in a year is called a light-year. It is equivalent to about 9.5 x 1015 meters.