light travels 9, 360 mi in a year in kilometers.
how far does light travel in a year in kilometers?
9, 360 mi
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the most distant astronomical object yet announced as of 2016 is a galaxy classified gn-z11. in 2009, a gamma ray burst, grb 090423, was found to have a redshift of 8.2, which indicates that the collapsing star that caused it exploded when the universe was only 630 million years old. the burst happened approximately 13 billion years ago, so a distance of about 13 billion light-years was widely quoted in the media (or sometimes a more precise figure of 13.035 billion light-years), though this would be the "light travel distance" ("see" distance measures (cosmology)) rather than the "proper distance" used in both hubble's law and in defining the size of the observable universe (cosmologist ned wright argues against the common use of light travel distance in astronomical press releases on this page, and at the bottom of the page offers online calculators that can be used to calculate the current proper distance to a distant object in a flat universe based on either the redshift "z" or the light travel time). the proper distance for a redshift of 8.2 would be about 9.2 gpc, or about 30 billion light-years. another record-holder for most distant object is a galaxy observed through and located beyond abell 2218, also with a light travel distance of approximately 13 billion light-years from earth, with observations from the hubble telescope indicating a redshift between 6.6 and 7.1, and observations from keck telescopes indicating a redshift towards the upper end of this range, around 7. the galaxy's light now observable on earth would have begun to emanate from its source about 750 million years after the big bang.
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