Unit of length used to express astronomical distances, defined as the distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year.
1 Parthenon was only six months ago, but you're dozens of light - years away.
2 The inner is at the distance of six light - years around the sun.
3 Worry faded when she saw the wormhole was only thirteen light - years long.
4 Fortunately, it is a safe and comfortable ten thousand light - years from us.
5 I envisaged transporting a Saturn-sized planet five hundred light - years as a test.
6 Three jumps later, spanning seven light - years , they were alone in interstellar space.
7 We now made six closely spaced jumps of a few light - years apiece.
8 The nearest fixed star with an available planet is eight-hundred-fifty light - years away.
9 Two hundred light - years behind the Pilgrimage fleet, eight relay stations failed simultaneously.
10 It's a spiral galaxy sitting some half a billion light - years from Earth.
11 They're on Terra, five hundred light - years , six months' ship voyage each way.
12 Most artifact passengers did it to help pass the long light - years .
13 It was difficult to believe that I was many light - years distant from England.
14 This was light - years ahead of Atari, went the message: It has a robot!
15 These people appear to have come from several hundred light - years away.
16 Previous versions plotted the locations of galaxies within 7 billion light - years of Earth.
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