Color Names

Light Year

Galactic dust, the colour of space between stars, a long way from anywhere.

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Light Year is a pale grey.

It can be described as pale, delicate, faded and almost grey.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Light Year

Light-year

A light-year, alternatively spelled light year, is a unit of length used to express astronomical distances and is equal to exactly 9460730472580.8 km, which is approximately 9.46 trillion kilometres or 5.88 trillion miles. As defined by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), a light-year is the distance that light travels in vacuum in one Julian year. Despite its inclusion of the word "year", the term is a unit of distance, not a unit of time.

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Year

A year is a unit of time based on how long it takes the Earth to orbit the Sun. In scientific use, the tropical year and the sidereal year are more exact. The modern calendar year, as reckoned according to the Gregorian calendar, approximates the tropical year by using a system of leap years.

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Light

Light, visible light, or visible radiation is electromagnetic radiation that can be perceived by the human eye. Visible light spans the visible spectrum and is usually defined as having wavelengths in the range of 400–700 nanometers (nm), corresponding to frequencies of 750–420 terahertz. The visible band sits adjacent to the infrared and the ultraviolet, called collectively optical radiation.

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light year

Noun

  1. A unit of length used to measure extremely large distances, equal to approximately 9.46 trillion kilometres 10 trillion kilometres (10 metres), equivalent to the distance light travels in one Julian year.
  2. A very long way.
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