Convert 5,700 Light Years to Parsecs
How far is 5,700 light years? How long is 5.7 thousand light years in parsecs? 5,700 ly to pc conversion.
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5,700 Light Years ≈
1,747.6279 Parsecs
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Result in Plain English
5,700 light years is equal to about 1,750 parsecs.
In Scientific Notation
5,700 light years
= 5.7 x 103 light years
≈ 1.74763 x 103 parsecs
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.
Parsecs
A parsec is a unit of distance used in astronomy. It is exactly 648,000 / Pi astronomical units, or approximately 30.9 trillion kilometers.