What does LY stand for?

Light Year

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Samples in periodicals archive:

The assembly of galaxies form filaments "millions of light years long and constitute the skeleton of the universe," it said.

Astronomers see 'skeleton' of the universe

2bn light years away has been named as the farthest from Earth ever found.

Scientists are star struck by discovery

The latest images show the Butterfly Nebula, an extraordinary cluster of gas released from a dying star which lies in our Milky Way galaxy around 3,800 light years away.

Taking wing in deep space, a celestial butterf ly

Scientists from British Columbia, using computer-enhanced telescopes in Hawaii, have detected three planets orbiting the star HR 8799, 130 light years away, in the constellation Pegasus.

Worlds in view; `Exoplanets' swim into our ken

A light year is about ten trillion kilometres, or the distance light travels in a year.

New planet in the frame

670M MPH Speed that light travels across the universe from any source LIGHT YEAR Distance light travels in an earth year - six thousand billion miles YOU CAN SEE.

BRIGHTEST STAR EVER; Flasher seen in back gardens

An Outcry Sunlight, our much-traveled friend, reaches us from ninety-three million miles away, (to say nothing of starlight's hundreds of light years, or mysterious gamma rays from thousands of light years away), a friend, coming all that way to guide our lives and dreams.

An Outcry

The society did not have any powerful binoculars before, but now members can look light years into the distance to spot comets, galaxies and nebulae.

New gift for stargazers