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Light-year
A light-year(ly) is a unit of length used informally to express astronomical distances. It is well over 9 trillion kilometers (or about 6 trillion miles). A light-year is the distance that light travels in vacuum in one Julian year. The light-year is most often used when expressing distances to stars and other distances on a galactic scale.
Unit symbol:
ly
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| Decimeters (mm) | {{dm}} |
| Feet (ft) | {{ft}} |
| Inches (in) | {{inc}} |
| Kilometers (km) | {{km}} |
| Meter (m) | {{m}} |
| Miles (mi) | {{mi}} |
| Millimeter (mm) | {{mm}} |
| Yards (yd) | {{yd}} |
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| Furlongs (fur) | {{fur}} |
| International Nautical Miles(nmi) | {{nmi}} |
| Parsecs (pc) | {{pc}} |
| UK Nautical Miles(UKnmi) | {{UKnmi}} |