light-years
- plural of light-year.
Example Sentences
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Beta Pictoris is about 63 light-years from Earth and is estimated to be roughly 23 million years old.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026
The study, published July 16 in Science, describes observations of helium escaping from LHS 1140 b, a rocky exoplanet located about 48 light-years from Earth.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026
Although that distance is enormous by human standards, it is a remarkably fine level of detail inside a galaxy that spans hundreds of thousands of light-years.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026
The planet, called LHS 1140 b, is 48 light-years from Earth orbiting a red star much smaller and cooler than our Sun.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
From the Sun to the center of the Milky Way Galaxy is 30,000 light-years.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
