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What is a Light Year?
This film, from Twig World, looks at what a light year is, how it is measured and why we measure distance in terms of time?
The key points made in the film are:
•Light travels through space at 300 million metres per second
•A light year is the distance that light travels in one year
•Although light travels very quickly, distances in space are vast
•Light from the Sun takes 8.3 minutes to reach Earth
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What is a light year? Transcript 36.5 KB
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Black hole 169.2 KB
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Definition of a parsec 69.38 KB
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Hubble space telescope 94.14 KB
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Satellite path 477.24 KB
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Space shuttle Atlantis 158.27 KB
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Stars 185.94 KB
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Telescope 76.19 KB
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The Moon and Earth 130.44 KB
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What is a light year? Transcript 36.5 KB -
Black hole 169.2 KB -
Definition of a parsec 69.38 KB
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Hubble space telescope 94.14 KB
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Satellite path 477.24 KB
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Space shuttle Atlantis 158.27 KB
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Stars 185.94 KB
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Telescope 76.19 KB
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The Moon and Earth 130.44 KB
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