Distance. One light-year is the distance that light travels in one year.
Light travels at 186,000 miles per second, or 300,000 kilometers per second. This speed is sometimes abbreviated as "c".
A light-year is a unit of distance, not a unit of time.
kilometer, AU (astronomical unit), light year, parsec.
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No, an astronomical unit (AU) is the average distance between Earth and the Sun, approximately 93 million miles. In comparison, a light year is the distance that light travels in one year, which is about 5.88 trillion miles. Therefore, a light year is significantly larger than an astronomical unit.
The light-year is the distance light travels in a year. Since this sometimes causes confusion, please note that a light-year is a unit of distance; NOT a unit of time. A light-year is approximately 9.5 x 1012 kilometers. (A light-year is defined to be exactly 9,460,730,472,580,800 metres.)
One thing that complicates matters slightly is that there are lots of things called "years", and they're all very slightly different. However, the fundamental SI unit of time is the second, so any other time unit is "derived" from that (with the possible exception of "Planck time", which is about as fundamental as it's possible to be since it's based on universal physical constants).
A light-year is a unit of distance, not a unit of time.
An Astronomical light unit (ALU) is a term derived to compliment a light year. It was devised by Wiki supervisors to alleviate the problem of people worrying about how a measure of distance could be related to time. "How long is one light year". It does not replace a light year, merely its usage is less confusing and the values stay exactly the same.
A light year is larger than an astronomical unit.
False the light year is not a unit of time it is a unit of distance true.
One Light-year is 63,024 Astronomical units.
The unit of measurement is the "light year".
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"Light-year" is NOT a unit of time. It is a unit of length or distance - the distance light travels in a year.
kilometer, AU (astronomical unit), light year, parsec.
This is an impossible conversion to make. A hour is a unit of time. A light year is a unit of distance, specifically, it is the distance light travels in a year.
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