1 light year = 3 x 10^8 meter/sec x1 year x
365 day/year x 24 hour/day x
60 min/hr x 60 sec/min
= 9.5 x 10^15 meters
= 9,500,000,000,000,000 meters
Nearest star = 4.3 light years
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