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Why do you use light years?

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Anonymous

14y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

We use light years for the sake of easy readability. In the universe, most of the distances are in trillions of miles or so. You cant go writing that an object is 1400000000000000... miles from earth! To make it clear and concise, light year is the unit we use.

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14y ago

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