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Compare and congrats the astronomical unit and the light year in the ven diagram below

Compare and congrats the astronomical unit and the light year in the ven diagram below-example-1
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AU:
AU is based off of the distance between 2 objects

Light-year:
Light-years are based off of how far light can travel in a year

Both:

Both are used to measure distances between celestial bodies in space

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