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A light-year is a unit of distance. It is the distance that light can travel in one year. Light moves at a velocity of about 300,000 kilometers (km) each second. So in one year, it can travel about 10 trillion km. More p recisely, one light-year is equal to 9,500,000,000,000 kilometers.
One Astronomical Unit, or AU, equals about 93 million miles (150 million km). Another way of looking at it: the Astronomical Unit is a bit more than 8 light-minutes in distance. A light beam takes 8 minutes to travel the 93 million miles (150 million km) from the sun to the Earth. Image via Brews OHare on Wikimedia Commons.