Solved cryptogram
A light year is not an amount of time. It is how far light gets in a year, and that is far.
Astronomy Facts, sourced to NASA.
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This fact is a cryptogram here: 67 letters over 17 different ones, graded easy.
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What it means
It comes to roughly six trillion miles, or nine and a half trillion kilometers. Astronomers use it because the numbers in ordinary units stop being readable: the nearest star after the sun is about four light years away, which is around twenty five trillion miles. The unit also carries a fact for free. Look at something a thousand light years off and you are seeing it as it was a thousand years ago.
The claim comes from NASA.
- SourceNASA
- CollectionAstronomy Facts
- Difficultyeasy
- Length67 letters, 17 of them different
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