if the difference between earth and star is 8.5 light second .Then what does it mean ?covert into km
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Answer:
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Explanation:
Stars other than our sun are so far distant that astronomers speak of their distances not in terms of kilometers or miles – but in light-years. Light is the fastest-moving stuff in the universe. If we simply express light-years as miles and kilometers, we end up with impossibly huge numbers. But the 20th century astronomer Robert Burnham, Jr. – author of Burnham’s Celestial Handbook – devised an ingenious way to portray the distance of one light-year and ultimately of expressing the distance scale of the universe, in understandable terms.
He did this by relating the light-year to the astronomical unit – the Earth-sun distance.
One astronomical unit, or AU, equals about 93 million miles (150 million km).
Another way of looking at it: the astronomical unit is a bit more than 8 light-minutes in distance.
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