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A light year (ly) is a unit of length used in astronomy, representing the distance that light travels in one year through a vacuum, approximately 9.461 trillion kilometers (about 5.879 trillion miles).
The meter is the base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI). It is defined as the distance traveled by light in a vacuum during a time interval of 1/299,792,458 of a second.