Sentence examples for light years with from inspiring English sources

Bonamente and his colleagues find the Hubble constant to be 77 kilometers per second per megaparsec (a megaparsec is equal to 3.26 million light years), with an uncertainty of about 15%.

The distance to Beta Pictoris is therefore 63.4 light years, with an uncertainty of 0.1 light years.

This shift was measured to high precision by the Hipparcos spacecraft, yielding a distance estimate of 150 light years (with an accuracy of ±5 light years).

With the film now up to $152m worldwide, profit remains light years away, with Deadline Hollywood quoting a true budget in excess of $200m plus $100m of marketing costs.

A galaxy, some 700 million light years away, with a central black hole.

A galaxy about 100 million light years away with an intermediate-mass black hole in one of its spiral arms.

A turkey sandwich tastes the same whether you're eating it on Earth or billions of light years away with your nitrogen-based hammer hands, so get over yourself.

The spacefarers in his latest novel, Aurora, set out on a voyage to a star 11.9 light years away with no warp drives, no sentient robots and no nanomachines.

Modern astronomy has moved light years ahead with the opening up to observation of new parts of the electromagnetic spectrum, from infrared (the Spitzer Space Telescope, launched in 2003) to gamma (the Integral Space Observatory, launched in 2002).

They allow scientists to capture images of stars and nebulas billions of light years away with the clarity you would expect of a snap of your cat snoozing on your living-room sofa.

Corona Australis harbours RX J1856.5-3754, an isolated neutron star that is thought to lie 140 (±40) parsecs, or 460 (±130) light years, away, with a diameter of 14 km.