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A light year is a unit of distance It is the distance that light can travel in one sidereal year Light moves at a velocity of about 300,000 kilometers each second So 300,000 km/sec x 60 sec/min x 60 min/hr x 24 hr/day x 365 days/year or: In one year light can travel about 9.46 trillion kilometers (that is 9,460,000,000,000 kilometers or 5,880,000,000,000 miles) More specifically, a light year is defined as the distance a photon would travel, in free space and infinitely far from any gravitational or magnetic field in one Julian year (365.25 days of 86400 seconds each) Light is used to measur