A light-year is not a measure of time, but of distance: 5.87 x 1012 miles. The distance light could travel in one year. ______________________________________________________________________ one revolution of planet earth: one year.
the question this should be is: how long is a light year- that answer i do not know A light year is a unit of distance equal to 5,865,696,000,000 miles
if you're asking "how long in years to travel 1 light year" you would have to know how fast you are traveling. a light year is a measure of distance that's equal to approximately six trillion miles...
The light from the star would have left 2.5 million years ago, as it takes light 1 year to travel a distance of 1 light year.
A light-year is the distance light can travel in one year. Light travels at 186,000 miles per second. Multiply that by 3600 seconds in an hour and then by 24 hours in a day and 365 days in a year and you will get the distance in one light-year.A light year is defined as 9,460,730,472,580,800 meters exactly, derivedfrom the distance that light travels in vacuum in one Julian year.
That's the approximate length of a light-year - the distance that light travels in a year.
9,460,800,000,000 km/5,865,696,000,000 miles = 1 light year.
1 light year = 9.4605284 × 1024 nanometres
It will take 1 year, as soon as you and Albert work out how to travel at the speed of light. ;)
if you're asking "how long in years to travel 1 light year" you would have to know how fast you are traveling. a light year is a measure of distance that's equal to approximately six trillion miles...
Light years is actually a measure of distance expressed in time. For example, a galaxy is 1 light year long, which means it will take 1 year to reach that galaxy with the speed of light(c). This implies that the galaxy is c(m/year)*1 meters long.
The question should be How Long is a light year (in standard form) as a light year is the DISTANCE that light will travel in one year No...I'm not sure what a light year would be in a leap year.
A light year is a unit of distance, not time. It represents the distance that light travels in one year, which is approximately 5.88 trillion miles. It is not equivalent to any specific duration of time in human years.
1 half light year = 2.93924991 × 1012 miles or 4.7302642 × 1012 kilometres
There are 17500 years in 1 lightyear, so 17500x3= 52500 years for three lightyears.
Ok its a bit hard and long, but its exactly 9460800000000 km for 1 light year.
The light from the star would have left 2.5 million years ago, as it takes light 1 year to travel a distance of 1 light year.
approx. 1 year
1 light year = 9,461,000,000,000 kilometers