Full name: sidereal year
Plural form: years
Symbol: yr
Alternate spelling: sidereal years
Category type: time
Scale factor: 31558149.504
The SI base unit for time is the second.
1 second is equal to 3.1687536047488E-8 sidereal year.
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A sidereal year (from Latin sidus "asterism, star") is the time taken by the Earth to orbit the Sun once with respect to the fixed stars. Hence it is also the time taken for the Sun to return to the same position with respect to the fixed stars after apparently travelling once around the ecliptic. It equals 365.25636 SI days for the J2000.0 epoch.