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Light years is a measure for distance, the distance light travels in one year. For the light to travel 587 light years, it takes 587 years.
It means it has taken light 130 years to travel the distance. Light travels 5,878,630,000,000 miles in 1 year, so something 130 light years away, is a LONG way away.
Light years is a measure of distance, not of time; it is the distance that light travels in one year.
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Yes, because light years is a specific distance. One light year is the distance light travels in the vacuum of space in one year. This distance is about 5.86 trillion miles. Therefore, 114 million light years is calculated by multiplying 5.86 trillion by 114 million. This results in an enormous distance, expressed as:6.70148979 × 1020 miles
It's in the constellation of Taurus the Bull. The distance to the Pleiades is about 135 parsecs, or 440 light years.
440 light-years. I would say this is the current estimate. There is always some error in those distance measurements.440 light-years. I would say this is the current estimate. There is always some error in those distance measurements.440 light-years. I would say this is the current estimate. There is always some error in those distance measurements.440 light-years. I would say this is the current estimate. There is always some error in those distance measurements.
The article on the Pleiades in Wikipedia states that the star cluster is approximately 135 parsecs or 440 light-years.
The Pleiades or Matariki is a star cluster about 440 light years from us. So it is NOT located within the Solar System.
An actual constellation is more like a direction in space - there is no "distance to" it, just as it doesn't make sense to talk about how far away "up" is. However, Matariki seems to refer specifically to the Pleiades cluster; the distance to this one is somewhere between 390 and 460 light-years.
About 135 parsecs.
27,000 light-years is a distance of 158,720,000,000,000,000 miles. This is the distance light will travel in 27,000 years.
The distance has been generally presented in Light-years, which is the distance light travels in one-year. The distance to Alpha Centari is 4.7 light-years (alpha Centari is 4.3 light-years distance).
Light years is a measure for distance, the distance light travels in one year. For the light to travel 587 light years, it takes 587 years.
A light-year is a distance, not a year. 16 light-years is the distance light can travel in 16 years - 94,058,003,200,000 miles.
Years are a measurement of time; light years are a measurement of distance. A light year is the distance light travels in one year (in a vacuum).
The distance of one light year, in light years, is exactly 1.