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How far is a light-year?
If you do the math, one light-year is about 9.5 trillion kilometres (5.88 trillion miles). But how can one comprehend and visualise such a huge number? Bruce McClure of Earthsky.org reveals an ingenious way to visualise the said number by way of mathematical coincidence.
It turns out that the number of inches in a mile is equal to the number of astronomical units in a light-year. One astronomical unit is the average distance between the sun and the earth, which amounts to 150 million kilometres or 93 million miles.
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Submitted by Srikar D., Discoverer.
Edited by Mark S.
ASTRIFEROUS
(adjective)
bearing stars; made of stars.
etymology: latin astrifer; astrum – star + ferre – to bear
O, Mourning Star. . . 