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.
1 light year is the distance light can travel in vacuum in one year s time this distance is equivalent to roughly 9461000000000 km or 5878000000000 miles this is such a large distance for comparison consider the circumference of the earth when measured at the equator 40075 km