light-years away
idiom
: very far away in time
A cure for that disease is still probably light-years away.
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The Beehive cluster is about 557 light-years away from Earth and is home to at least two planets.
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Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 31 May 2023
Their calculations indicated that the burst happened nearly eight billion light-years away from Earth, when the universe was around six billion years old.
—Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2023
The event, still being detected by telescopes, occurred nearly 8 billion light-years away from Earth when the universe was about 6 billion years old.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 12 May 2023
The sun-like star, known as ZTF SLRN-2020, lies about 15,000 light-years away in our own Milky Way galaxy in the constellation Aquila and is thought to have engulfed a hot-gas giant planet about the size of Jupiter.
—Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 3 May 2023
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Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 31 May 2023
Their calculations indicated that the burst happened nearly eight billion light-years away from Earth, when the universe was around six billion years old.
—Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2023
The event, still being detected by telescopes, occurred nearly 8 billion light-years away from Earth when the universe was about 6 billion years old.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 12 May 2023
The sun-like star, known as ZTF SLRN-2020, lies about 15,000 light-years away in our own Milky Way galaxy in the constellation Aquila and is thought to have engulfed a hot-gas giant planet about the size of Jupiter.
—Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 3 May 2023
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“Light-years away.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/light-years%20away. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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