Full name: light year
Plural form: light years
Symbol: ly
Alternate spelling: lightyear
Category type: length
Scale factor: 9460730472580800
The SI base unit for length is the metre.
1 metre is equal to 1.0570008340246E-16 light-year.
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A light year, abbreviated ly, is the distance light travels in one year: roughly 9.46 × 1012 kilometres (9.46 petametres, or about 5.88 × 1012 (nearly six trillion) miles). More specifically, a light year is defined as the distance that a photon would travel, in free space and infinitely far away from any gravitational or magnetic fields, in one Julian year (365.25 days of 86400 seconds each).
light-year to elle [Germany]
light-year to pace [great]
light-year to mark twain
light-year to kilofoot
light-year to rod [survey]
light-year to zoll [Germany]
light-year to light month
light-year to ri [Japan]
light-year to military pace [double time]
light-year to ch'ih [China]