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light-year
A light-year is the distance light travels in one year — roughly <hl>5.88 trillion miles</hl>. The nearest star system, Alpha Centauri, is 4.37 light-years away. At the speed of the fastest spacecraft ever built, it would take over 6,000 years to get there.
SrcEuropean Space Agency

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