What is meant by light year, how is the distance between the stars measured and how is it calculated, who uses this cosmic unit of measurement.
How to measure a light year
The distances between the stars are so great that astronomers don't use kilometers to measure them.
Instead, they use the light year.
A light year is the distance that light travels in a year, corresponding to about 9500 billion kilometers.
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