How to Use light-year in a Sentence

light-year

noun

• It was thought that 16 million light-years was around the upper limit possible for these jets.
  — New Atlas, 19 Sep. 2024
• Formed when the universe was less than half its current age, the pair collectively spewed the energy equivalent of trillions of suns across 23 million light-years of space.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 18 Sep. 2024
• At 444 light-years away, the Pleiades is one of the closest star clusters to Earth.
  — Samuel Sanders, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 July 2024
• Of course, the hard part is trying to spot clear signs of life from more than 1,000 light-years away.
  — WIRED, 2 Oct. 2023
• The Beehive cluster is about 557 light-years away from Earth and is home to at least two planets.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 31 May 2023
• This stellar nursery is about 450 light-years away from Earth.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 11 Apr. 2024
• About 1,000 light-years away, a vast disk of gas and dust is offering astronomers a peek at how planets are born.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 June 2024
• Vega, the brightest star in the constellation Lyra, is 25 light-years from Earth.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 14 July 2023
• This one is 100 light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices.
  — CBS News, 30 Nov. 2023
• The Whirlpool Galaxy lies about 27 million light-years away and contains hundreds of billions of stars.
  — Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 8 Sep. 2023
• These two galaxies are more than 2 million light-years away.
  — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 21 Jan. 2024
• This nebula is just about 1,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Perseus.
  — Samuel Sanders, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Sep. 2024
• What turned out to be hard for Venus will only be harder for exoplanets many light-years away.
  — Elise Cutts, WIRED, 7 Apr. 2024
• What turned out to be hard for Venus will only be harder for exoplanets many light-years away.
  — Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 19 Mar. 2024
• About 57 light-years away, four planets orbit a sunlike star that is 10 billion years old — twice as old as the sun, and already in the advanced stages of its life.
  — Quanta Magazine, 20 Dec. 2023
• Over the next six years, the powerful space telescope will peer as far as ten billion light-years across the cosmos, constructing the largest 3D map of the universe to date.
  — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 May 2024
• Andria seemed to live light-years away from my Washington, D.C. apartment.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
• The images show the surface of the star R. Doradus, a red giant star 180 light-years away in the Dorado constellation.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 11 Sep. 2024
• Some voids span hundreds of millions of light-years, and together, these bubbles make up at least 80% of the universe’s volume.
  — Lyndie Chiou, Quanta Magazine, 25 July 2023
• The Pillars of Creation is a small region within the vast Eagle Nebula, which lies 6,500 light-years away.
  — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 12 July 2023
• Those include young star-forming regions and older star clusters as small as just 10 light-years across.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 10 Aug. 2023
• This is a massive, super-active star-forming region that spans more than 1,600 light-years.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 25 Jan. 2024
• John was light-years away from my stuffy East Coast upbringing and liberal-arts college friends.
  — Meta Valentic, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2023
• Some 3,800 light-years away from Earth, in the Southern Hemisphere constellation Norma, lies a massive cloud of gas and dust.
  — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Apr. 2024
• The map, painted in infrared wavelengths, reveals new details in a stretch of our galactic home 500 light-years wide.
  — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2024
• To reach us, a burst from outside the Milky Way must traverse millions or billions of light-years of the near-empty space between galaxies.
  — Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 19 Oct. 2023
• The second candidate is much farther away—about 3.2 billion light-years—and is earlier in the merging process.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 3 Mar. 2023
• The gargantuan black hole, which is said to have the mass of 30 billion suns, is located at the center of a galaxy hundreds of millions of light-years from Earth.
  — Ariana Garcia, Chron, 2 Apr. 2023
• This feature measures about 20 light-years across, or more than six times the diameter of our Solar System.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 16 Jan. 2024
• At those distances, Hubble can resolve objects a few light-years across—tens of trillions of kilometers—at best.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 30 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024