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    WHAT IS A LIGHT YEAR?

    Jan 27, 2022 2 minutes
    Reported by Tim Childers and Jon Gordon
    “WHEN YOU OBSERVE SOMETHING A LIGHT YEAR AWAY, YOU SEE IT AS IT APPEARED EXACTLY ONE YEAR AGO”

    light year is a measurement of distance and not time, as the name might suggest. A light year is the distance a beam of light travels in a single Earth year, or around 9.7 trillion

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