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A light year is the distance light travels in one year and is a measure of distance or length. It equates to about 5.9 trillion miles.

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Is lightyear or foot bigger?

A lightyear is a much larger distance.


How long does it take for a lightyear to travel?

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What part of speech is lightyear?

"Lightyear" is a noun. It is a unit of distance used to measure interstellar space.


Is a lightyear a linear distance measurement?

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Why is a lightyear a measurement of distance not time?

Because the definition of a lightyear is: how long light can travel in a year. Hope this helped;)


How much is 20 lightyears in earth years?

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Square root for lightyear?

Please note that a light-year is a distance. As far as I know, the square root of a distance is not something that makes sense physically - in other words, you can express it mathematically, but it's not a unit used in practice.


How far is 1 lightyear?

Roughly 5,868,700,000,000 miles. (rounded)


How big is a lightyear?

Light can travel about 6 trillion miles in a year, so that distance is called a light-year.


How many kilometers in one lightyear per hour?

A light year is the distance that light will travel in a vacuum in a year. Nothing can travel that distance in an hour so a lightyear per hour is a meaningless concept of speed. Though impossible to attain, it is a measure of speed while a kilometre is a measure of distance. There is no direct relationship between the two.


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