What is the distance light will travel in one year?

Answer 1

It travels "one light year."

Light travels at 186,282.397 miles per second, so this is about

5,878,000,000,000 miles (5.88 trillion miles, 5.88 x 1012 miles)

or 9.46 trillion kilometers (9.46 x 1012 km)

To estimate this distance in miles,

186,300 miles/second

60 (seconds in one minute)

60 (minutes in an hour)

24 (hours in a day)

x 365.25 (days in one year)

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5,879,180,880,000
About 5.9 trillion miles in one year.
Light is said to travel at 186,000 miles (rounded off) per second.

There are 60 seconds in a minute : 60 x 11160000

60 minutes in an hour : 60 x 669600000

24 hours in a day : 24 x 16070400000

One light year: 5,865,696,000,000 miles per year

or 5.865 trillion miles.

The exact answer (in miles):

it 6,000,000,000 miles.

AnswerYou're off by a factor of 1000. It's actually about 6 trillion miles (6*10^12)

The EXACT answer in miles is 5,874,589,152,000 so 5.87 trillion miles to be simple. Space is really vast considering the nearest galaxy (Andromeda) is 2 million light years away :)

5,869,593,072,00 is the exact answer
5,878,625,373,184 miles.

Answer 2

The distance light will travel in one year is approximately 5.88 trillion miles or 9.46 trillion kilometers, which is also known as a light-year.

Answer 3

Light travels at 3 X 105 km/sec. A day has 24 X 60 X 60 seconds. You do the math.

I came up with 16105941302.792 miles. +-

Answer 4

Light can travel 670 Mmiles/hr thus in a day,

light travels 670 Mmiles/hr x 24 hrs/day=16.08 GigaMiles/day.

Answer 5

exactly 9,460,730,472,580.8 km

or 5,878,625,373,183.608 miles

Answer 6

26027397260.3 km

this is too big for meters

(my calculator gave scientific notation)

Answer 7

That's the distance that astronomers call "one light year".

it's 9,460,528,000,000 kilometers, or 5,878,500,000,000 miles. (rounded)

Answer 8

9,454,254,955,500 metres.

Answer 9

9.461 x 10^15 meters.

Answer 10

26027397