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  2. Light-second - Wikipedia

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    light-hour 60 light-minutes = 3600 light-seconds 1 079 252 848 800 m: 1.079 × 10 9 km: 6.706 × 10 8 miles: The perihelion of Saturn's orbit is about 1.25 light-hours light-day 24 light-hours = 86 400 light-seconds 25 902 068 371 200 m: 2.590 × 10 10 km: 1.609 × 10 10 miles: Voyager 1 is about 0.94 light-days from the Sun (as of April 2024 ...

  3. Speed of light - Wikipedia

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    The speed of light in vacuum, commonly denoted c, is a universal physical constant that is exactly equal to 299,792,458 metres per second (approximately 300,000 kilometres per second; 186,000 miles per second; 671 million miles per hour).

  4. Light-year - Wikipedia

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    For example, the light-second, useful in astronomy, telecommunications and relativistic physics, is exactly 299 792 458 metres or ⁠ 1 / 31 557 600 ⁠ of a light-year. Units such as the light-minute, light-hour and light-day are sometimes used in popular science publications.

  5. Unit of time - Wikipedia

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    1/1000 d (0.001 d) 1.44 minutes, or 86.4 seconds. Also marketed as a ".beat" by the Swatch corporation. moment: 1/40 solar hour (90 s on average) Medieval unit of time used by astronomers to compute astronomical movements, length varies with the season. [4] Also colloquially refers to a brief period of time. centiday 0.01 d (1 % of a day)

  6. Orders of magnitude (speed) - Wikipedia

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    1 knot (nautical mile per hour) 10 0: 1.2: ... 1: Speed of light or other electromagnetic radiation in a vacuum or massless particles. >299,792,458 >1,079,252,848.8

  7. Winter solstice 2024: The shortest day of the year is arriving

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    December 16, 2024 at 1:43 PM As holiday lights brighten streets and the season of cheer unfolds, Dec. 21 marks the winter solstice this year -- a reminder that the darkest day of the year is upon us.

  8. Orders of magnitude (time) - Wikipedia

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    (1 hs = 1 min 40 s = 100 s) 2 hs (3 min 20 s): The average length of the most popular YouTube videos as of January 2017 [15] 5.55 hs (9 min 12 s): The longest videos in the above study 7.1 hs (11 m 50 s): The time for a human walking at average speed of 1.4 m/s to walk 1 kilometre 10 3: kilosecond ks minutes, hours, days (1 ks = 16 min 40 s ...

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