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Why are light-years used to describe distances to objects in the universe such as stars?

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Why are light-years used to describe distances to objects in the universe such as stars?

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So we use a really big unit of measure – the distance that light travels in a year – for our unit of measure. Then astronomical distances don’t SEEM quite so large.

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