Sylvester started as a beautiful nowhere in 1893 and was first called Isabella Station. When the Brunswick and Albany Railroad came through southwest Georgia, the county seat was Isabella, which is located three miles north of the railroad.
It really is an incredibly long distance -- a lightyear is roughly 6 trillion miles or nearly 10 trillion kilometers. Here's how you calculate it. You start with the speed of light, which is about 186,000 miles per second. Then you multiply that by 3,600 seconds in an hour. Then you multiply that by 24 hours in a day.
So a light year is about (I've rounded off a bit) 5,878,786,100,000 miles. That's almost 6 trillion miles. The distance from the earth to the Sun is 93 million miles. The distance to the nearest star is 4.3 light years, and the distance to the Andromeda galaxy is 2 million light years.ating Newest Oldest. Best Answer: A light year is the distance that light travels in one year. The speed of light is 186,287.5 miles per second. You can find out the number of seconds in a year by multiplying the number of seconds in a minute (60) by the number of minutes in an hour (60).