A light year is

Physical Geography Mcqs

A.A unit of time which the earth takes to go round the sun
B.The distance travelled by the light in one year
C.It is a year in which the gravitational pull is less than the normal value of ‘G’

A light year (symbol: ly) is the distance that light travels in empty space in one year. Since the speed of light is about 300,000 km per second (about 186,000 miles per second), then a light year is about 10 trillion kilometers (about 6 trillion miles).

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