All 4 Uses of
light-year
in
Childhood's End
- In the first case, the sooner I finish my work here, the sooner I can get back to where I belong, a good many light-years from here.†
Chpt 2 *
- NGS 549672 is forty light-years from Earth.†
Chpt 12
- You arc looking at your own Universe, the island galaxy of which your Sun is a member, from a distance of half a million light-years.†
Chpt 14
- He had been forty light-years into space, yet he had never walked on those silent, dusty plains less than two light-seconds away.†
Chpt 24
Definition:
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(light-year) the distance that light travels in a vacuum in 1 year; 5.88 trillion miles or 9.46 trillion kilometers