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Sunspot cycles are 10 to 12 years in length.

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One light years is equals to how many killometers?

It is a rather small fraction of a light year. A light year is about 9,460,730,472,580.80 km. The fraction of a light year that your number represents is roughly 5.9 divided by 9,461.


How long is half a light year?

1 half light year = 2.93924991 × 1012 miles or 4.7302642 × 1012 kilometres


How many meters and miles are in a light year?

1 light year = 9.4605284 × 1015 meters or 5.87849981 × 1012 miles.


What is theApproximate width of solar system in light years?

First of all, let's pick something to be the end of the solar system, so that we can agreeon what's in and what's out.For our first estimate, let's say everything that's double the distance to Pluto is "in".Pluto's average distance from the sun is listed as 5.91 billion km. Double that is 11.82 billion kmfrom the sun all around, or a circle that's 23.64 billion km across. The speed of light is 300 millionmeters per second. So the diameter of that circle is23.64 x 1012 / 3 x 108 = 7.88 x 104 light-seconds = 21.9 light-hours = 0.0025 light-years===========================================But don't go away. We have to do that calculation one more time.Just to get an idea of whether our estimate of double-Pluto's-distance is reasonable, welooked into the TIME/Britannica Almanac 2010, and we were shocked ! This reference saysthat the "Oort Cloud" ... a giant spherical cloud of icy, comet-like bodies ... is thought toorbit the sun at distances out to 1,000 times the orbit of Pluto. If that's true, then wehave to revise our calculation drastically.Average distance to Pluto: 5.91 billion kmRadius of the Oort Cloud: 5,910 billion kmDiameter of the solar system including the Oort Cloud: 11,820 billion kmSpeed of light = 300 million meters per secondDiameter of the solar system at light speed:1.182 x 1016 / 3 x 108 = 3.94 x 107 light-seconds = 456 light-days = 1.25 light-year


How much gas need to travel one light year?

The amount of gas needed to travel one light year would vary depending on the spacecraft and its propulsion system. In general, a spacecraft would need a significant amount of fuel to travel such a vast distance due to the energy required to accelerate and maintain speed over such a long distance. Efficient propulsion systems and advanced technologies would be necessary to make such a journey feasible.