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Astronomy

light-secondls

The distance light travels in vacuum in one second.

Dimension
length
Canonical signature
L
System
astronomical
Exactness
Exact

Definition record

How this unit is defined

Canonical base
1 ls = 299,792,458 m
Conversion type
linear
Aliases
light seconds

Same dimension

Related units

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Common conversions

Every conversion routes through the canonical base of the dimension.

1 ls = 299,792,458 m

Exact relationship

10 ls = 2,997,924,580 m

Exact relationship