Dictionary of synonyms

Synonyms and antonyms of the word: light-years

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For this, Kane and his colleague Tara Fetherolf looked at a system GJ 357. This one was even close—just 30 light-years away.

Source: https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/science/watch-this-space-dinkineshs-space-twin-and-jupiter-could-kill-earth-9014016/

He poured cold water on the idea that, from Roswell onwards, dozens of vessels that were advanced enough to cross thousands of light-years of space had suddenly developed some technical fault and crashed in the New Mexico desert.

Source: https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/british-ufo-expert-speaks-out-30175714

He thus estimated the primary disk’s diameter at about 300,000 light-years, an almost incomprehensibly large number.

Source: https://www.delgazette.com/2023/10/04/astronomers-long-debated-diameter-of-milky-way/

IF technology is the future of learning, then students are light-years ahead at USP College’s XTEND Digital Campus.

Source: https://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/23297329.canveys-xtend-digital-campus-leads-way-virtual-reality/?ref=rss

It's called Supernova 1987A and is located about 168,000 light-years away from Earth in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Source: https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/25207759/best-space-photos-2023-uranus-milky-way/

Magnetar GPM J1839-10 is located approximately 15,000 light-years away from Earth in the Scutum constellation.

Source: https://hothardware.com/news/astronomers-discover-radio-signal-pinging-every-22-minutes

Messier 74 is approximately 32 million light-years away but is typically too dark to observe with a regular telescope.

Source: https://nypost.com/2023/05/28/nasas-james-webb-telescope-observatory-release-space-images/

One of the 15 brightest stars in the entire sky, Spica is a blue giant star about 250 light-years distant.

Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2023/01/08/a-comet-venus-as-the-evening-star-and-a-mars-bullseye-the-night-sky-this-week/

Researchers, including several from NASA, used the Webb telescope to study the planet about 1,300 light-years away.

Source: https://mashable.com/article/planets-exoplanets-discovery-2023

Spica is one of the 20 brightest stars in the night sky and about 250 light-years distant.

Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2023/04/02/see-a-full-pink-moon-rise-to-herald-easter-the-night-sky-this-week/

The merging galaxy pair Arp-Madore 417-391 is located 670 million light-years from Earth in the constellation of Eridanus, which is in the southern celestial hemisphere.

Source: https://www.digitaltrends.com/space/decam-supernova-remnant/

These two counties have a combined GDP of nearly $7 trillion—or 235X more than North Korea and they are light-years ahead of the latter in technology and military capability.

Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/08/david-stockman/us-empire-first-policy-led-to-a-quagmire-of-forever-wars/

The stellar remnant, located about 15 light-years from Earth, is now about 56% the mass of our Sun.

Source: https://gizmodo.com/hubble-telescope-white-dwarf-mass-1850065591

To detect this “dark” effect on the observable universe, Euclid will observe the universe over the next six years – at a distance of up to ten billion light-years.

Source: https://www.thewestonforum.com/esa-releases-first-images-from-euclid-mission-many-galaxies-never-seen-before/