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How fast does light year travel?

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15y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019
  • Light travels at different speeds depending on the density of what it is traveling through. In a vacuum, such as space, it travels at 186,282.397 miles per second or 299,792,458 meters per second.
  • It takes 499.0 seconds for light to travel from the Sun to the Earth, a distance called 1 Astronomical Unit.
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