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a huge physical or conceptual distance
my sister and I are close in age, but personality-wise, there are light-years between us
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Recent Examples of light-year
The stars of the Pleiades are about 444 light-years distant.
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Jamie Carter, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
But for galaxies billions of light-years away, the stars appear blended together due to the distance.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 6 Jan. 2025
Using a technique called gravitational lensing, the team of researchers were able to make their historic stellar discovery in a distant galaxy located nearly 6.5 billion light-years from Earth.
—Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2025
The event was relatively easy to localize, allowing it to be associated with a specific galaxy that is relatively nearby, at least in cosmological terms (about 200 million light-years away).
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 3 Jan. 2025
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Jamie Carter, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
But for galaxies billions of light-years away, the stars appear blended together due to the distance.
—Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 6 Jan. 2025
Using a technique called gravitational lensing, the team of researchers were able to make their historic stellar discovery in a distant galaxy located nearly 6.5 billion light-years from Earth.
—Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2025
The event was relatively easy to localize, allowing it to be associated with a specific galaxy that is relatively nearby, at least in cosmological terms (about 200 million light-years away).
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 3 Jan. 2025
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“Light-year.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/light-year. Accessed 31 Jan. 2025.
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