How many light years away is the sun

So what exactly are light-years — or rather, how far is one light-year? Light travels at 186,000 miles per second (300,000 kilometers per second). Therefore, a light second is 186,000 miles (300,000 kilometers).

A light-year is the distance that light travels in a year, or:

186,000 miles/second * 60 seconds/minute * 60 minutes/hour * 24 hours/day * 365 days/year = 5,865,696,000,000 miles/year

One light-year is 5,865,696,000,000 miles (9,460,800,000,000 kilometers).

One light-year is equal to km

Light-years are a long way!

Using a light-year as a distance measurement has another advantage — it helps you determine age. Let's say that a star is 1 million light-years away. The light from that star has traveled at the speed of light to reach our planet.

Therefore, it has taken the star's light 1 million years to get to our planet, and the light we are seeing was created 1 million years ago. So the star we are seeing is really how the star looked a million years ago, not how it looks at this moment from our viewpoint.

In the same way, our sun is 8 or so light minutes away.

If the sun were

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