Convert 5,500 Light Years to Kilometers
How far is 5,500 light years? How long is 5.5 thousand light years in kilometers? 5,500 ly to km conversion.
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5,500 Light Years =
52,034,017,599,194,400 Kilometers
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Result in Plain English
5,500 light years is equal to about 52 quadrillion kilometers.
In Scientific Notation
5,500 light years
= 5.5 x 103 light years
≈ 5.2034 x 1016 kilometers
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.
Kilometers
A kilometer, or kilometre, is a unit of length equal to 1,000 meters, or about 0.621 miles. In most of the world, it is the most common unit for measuring distance between places.