- A light-year is the distance light travels in one year. - It is a unit of distance. - Used for measuring large distances in astronomy.
Light year is a measure of
Asked in UPSC NDA 2 2017 · Topic: Measurement/Unit (Non-SI Units (e.g., Astronomical Unit, Light-Year, Electron-Volt))
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