What is faster a light year or light?

Answer 1

A light year is a measure of distance, not speed.

One light year is simply how far you'd get if you were able to travel at the speed of light for one year.

Space is so big that talking about distances between stars would be difficult if we used miles or kilometers. Even with light years, we quickly get real big numbers. Still more manageable than if we talked about miles though.

Answer 2

Light is the fastest thing in the universe, traveling at a constant speed of about 186,282 miles per second. A light year, on the other hand, is a unit of distance, representing the distance that light travels in one year (about 5.88 trillion miles).

Answer 3

Years are a unit of time; a lightyear is the distance travelled by light in a year which is 5.88 trillion miles . The two cannot be converted or directly compared.