Light-Year is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.
You can make 518 anagrams from letters in light-year (-aeghilrty).
First recorded in 1885-90
You were about right for distance, and within a few tenths of a light-year laterally.
One magnetar is only about a light-year from the black hole at the center of the Milky Way.
By your figuring, we shouldn't be yet one light-year on the way.
The light-year is the distance that light travels in one year.
"The distance is half a light-year now, sir," reported the navigation officer.
Bearings agree, and distances check to within a light-year, which is as close as we can hope to check on as small a mass as a man.
The figures of the light-year dials were meaningless to his comprehension.
We are still one light-year distant from Alpha Centauri, the nearest of the bright stars.
Our task was easy, because we were about half a light-year from the sun.
One could imagine falling forty-two thousand miles, where one couldn't imagine falling a light-year.
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