We are a light-year away from our destination.The newly discovered, earth-like planet is a light-year away from us.
The undiscovered planet lay a light-year away from the swirling Milky Way galaxy.
The moon is about 1.278 light-seconds from Earth.Converting that figure to the equivalent fraction of a year, I get0.000 000 040 486 light-year (rounded)
Shorter. Mercury has a shorter orbit than earth and 1 day in mercury = 59 days on Earth. 1 year on mercury= 88 days on earth.
Mercury has the shortest year. It's year is about 88 Earth days.
Wrong!!!!! The Sun is 1 A.U. ( Astronomic Unit) from Earth. Because of the immensity of space, distances are calculated in 'A.U.' or 'Light Years'. Photons of Light from the Sun takes approximately 8 minutes to reach Earth.
There are 449680 earth days in one Mercury year. From 3limes
Mercury's orbit of 88 days is approximately 1/4 of an Earth year.
It takes about 88 of our days to orbit the sun.
A light year - is the distance a pulse of light would travel in an earth 'year'. This equates to a distance of5,869,713,600,000 mile in a single year. Something 10,000 light years from earth would be at a distance of58,697,136,000,000,000 miles - or roughly 58,697 BILLION miles away!
Well, I'll give you what 1 Mercury year is on Earth and you can figure out from there. 1 year on Mercury = 88 Earth days
A light year is a distance, or the total distance a ray of light can travel in 1 year (light travels at 300,000,000m per second) to be accurate. When Venus is closest to earth, it is about 38 million kilometres away (0.000004017 light years). When Venus is furthest from earth, it is about 261 million kilometres away (0.000027588 light years).