light-years (Meaning)
light-years
a very great distance especially in progress, a unit of length in astronomy equal to the distance that light travels in one year in a vacuum or about 5.88 trillion miles (9.46 trillion kilometers), a unit of length in astronomy equal to the distance that light travels in one year or 5,880,000,000,000 miles (9,460,000,000,000 kilometers), an extremely large measure of comparison (as of distance, time, or quality)
Synonyms & Antonyms of light-years
light-years Sentence Examples
- The Andromeda Galaxy is approximately 2.5 million light-years away from Earth.
- The nearest star beyond the Sun, Proxima Centauri, is a mere 4.2 light-years distant.
- The farthest object ever observed by the Hubble Space Telescope is GN-z11, which is located 13.4 billion light-years away.
- The Voyager 1 probe has traveled a total of 14.5 billion kilometers, which is less than one light-day.
- The Milky Way galaxy spans 100,000 light-years across its greatest dimension.
- It takes light from the Sun approximately 8 minutes to reach Earth, a distance of about 8 light-minutes.
- The speed of light is approximately 299,792,458 meters per second, or 186,282 miles per second.
- The distance between Earth and the Moon is approximately 238,900 miles, or 1.3 light-seconds.
- The first interstellar object ever observed, 'Oumuamua, is estimated to be 200 to 400 meters in length and has traveled billions of light-years.
- The observable universe is estimated to be approximately 93 billion light-years in diameter.
FAQs About the word light-years
a very great distance especially in progress, a unit of length in astronomy equal to the distance that light travels in one year in a vacuum or about 5.88 trill
worlds, galaxies,ways, infinities,long hauls, country miles
striking distances, inches, stone's throws, hairs,hairsbreadths, hairbreadths,
The Andromeda Galaxy is approximately 2.5 million light-years away from Earth.
The nearest star beyond the Sun, Proxima Centauri, is a mere 4.2 light-years distant.
The farthest object ever observed by the Hubble Space Telescope is GN-z11, which is located 13.4 billion light-years away.
The Voyager 1 probe has traveled a total of 14.5 billion kilometers, which is less than one light-day.
