Convert 10,000 Light Years to Astronomical Units
How far is 10,000 light years? How long is 10 thousand light years in astronomical units? 10,000 ly to AU conversion.
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10,000 Light Years ≈
632,410,771 Astronomical Units
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Result in Plain English
10 thousand light years is equal to about 632 million astronomical units.
In Scientific Notation
10,000 light years
= 1 x 104 light years
≈ 6.32411 x 108 astronomical units
Light Years
A light year is the distance that light travels in one year. The year used by the International Astronomical Union is 365.25 days. A light year is defined as exactly 9,460,730,472,580.8 kilometers.
Astronomical Units
An astronomical unit is the average distance between the Earth and the Sun. Estimates of this distance have varied over time. It is now defined as exactly 149,597,870.7 kilometers.