#1 One light year is the amount of distance light travels in a single year.
Light travels at about 186,000 miles per second, so one light year equates to approximately 5,900,000,000,000 miles or Five Trillion, Nine Hundred Billion Miles!
Light travels at about 186,000 miles per second, so one light year equates to approximately 5,900,000,000,000 miles or Five Trillion, Nine Hundred Billion Miles!