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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).
A parsec (pc) is a unit of length used in astronomy, representing the distance at which one astronomical unit subtends an angle of one arcsecond, approximately 3.086 trillion kilometers (about 3.262 light years).