A star in a distant galaxy is 97 trillion km from earth.How many years would it take light to get from the star to earth?

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Plutoberth · Answer 1 · 2019-04-02T03:08:35+0000

10.3 years; speed of light = 299,792 km/s (Internet)

(97*10^12 km)/(299,792 km/s)=323,557,666.6 seconds

Convert seconds to years which should give you 10.3 years. Looks reasonable

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