light-year

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light-yearsearch for term: A unit of length used by astronomers to measure distance. One light-year is equal to the distance light travels in one year, which is about 5.88 trillion miles or almost 800 times the diameter of our Solar System. The nearest star is a mere four light-years away, while the nearest spiral galaxy lies 2.2 million light-years from Earth.