How to Use light-year in a Sentence

light-year

noun

• The stars of the Pleiades are about 444 light-years distant.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
• The stars of the Pleiades are about 444 light-years distant.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
• This blue-white star 77 light-years from our sun is one of the brightest in the April sky.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
• At 444 light-years away, the Pleiades is one of the closest star clusters to Earth.
  — Samuel Sanders, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 July 2024
• Of course, the hard part is trying to spot clear signs of life from more than 1,000 light-years away.
  — WIRED, 2 Oct. 2023
• The stars that make up the locks are about 250 light-years away, just down the celestial block from us.
  — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 25 May 2025
• The sisters are waving at us from over 400 light-years away.
  — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 30 Mar. 2025
• The disks the team studied range from only a few hundred to around 1,000 light-years from Earth.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 30 Apr. 2025
• Barnard’s Star is small—about 15 percent the mass of our sun—and only around six light-years away.
  — Rudy Molinek, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Mar. 2025
• The Beehive cluster is about 557 light-years away from Earth and is home to at least two planets.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 31 May 2023
• This stellar nursery is about 450 light-years away from Earth.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 11 Apr. 2024
• The third category only gets out to four light-years, which isn’t even as far as the closest star to the sun.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 27 Feb. 2025
• The third category only gets out to four light-years, which isn’t even as far as the closest star to the sun.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 27 Feb. 2025
• Both are great and light-years better than rubber bands or a Ziploc.
  — Jen Murphy, Outside Online, 21 Oct. 2024
• About 1,000 light-years away, a vast disk of gas and dust is offering astronomers a peek at how planets are born.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 June 2024
• Vega, the brightest star in the constellation Lyra, is 25 light-years from Earth.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 14 July 2023
• The evidence is 200 ancient stars in the Milky Way’s halo, the most distant of which is more than a million light-years from Earth.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 23 Nov. 2024
• This one is 100 light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices.
  — CBS News, 30 Nov. 2023
• The Whirlpool Galaxy lies about 27 million light-years away and contains hundreds of billions of stars.
  — Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 8 Sep. 2023
• The team traced the repeating fast radio burst to the edge of an 11.3 billion-year-old galaxy 2 billion light-years from Earth.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 24 Jan. 2025
• What’s your reaction to the news of potential signs of life on a massive planet light-years away?
  — Jeremy Engle, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2025
• These two galaxies are more than 2 million light-years away.
  — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 21 Jan. 2024
• It was thought that 16 million light-years was around the upper limit possible for these jets.
  — New Atlas, 19 Sep. 2024
• It’s also considered to be a nearby star at a little over 36 light-years away.
  — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 13 Apr. 2025
• This nebula is just about 1,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Perseus.
  — Samuel Sanders, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Sep. 2024
• What turned out to be hard for Venus will only be harder for exoplanets many light-years away.
  — Elise Cutts, WIRED, 7 Apr. 2024
• What turned out to be hard for Venus will only be harder for exoplanets many light-years away.
  — Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 19 Mar. 2024
• About 57 light-years away, four planets orbit a sunlike star that is 10 billion years old — twice as old as the sun, and already in the advanced stages of its life.
  — Quanta Magazine, 20 Dec. 2023
• When staring at twin suns like from much greater distances — many light-years away — astronomers have a much tougher time than young Skywalker in determining two stars from one.
  — Robert Lea, Space.com, 3 June 2025
• Astronomically, Capella is around 42 light-years away, with just one light-year equaling nearly 6 trillion miles.
  — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 8 June 2025