Examples of using "Lichtjahre" in a sentence and their english translations:
The parsec is equal to about 3.3 light-years.
This star is five light years away.
The planet Sakura is 4.7 light-years away.
Our solar system is 26,000 light-years from the center of the Galaxy.
The Andromeda galaxy is over 2 million light-years away from us.
Alpha Centauri is about 4.37 light years away from our sun.
The nearest star is about four and half light-years away from the earth.
The spiral galaxy NGC 3344 is located about 20 million light-years away.
The average distance between stars within our galaxy is about 4 light years.
Sirius is a binary star system and is about 8.6 light-years distant from our sun.
Seven earthlike planets have been discovered orbiting a dwarf star about 40 light years away.
A team of European astronomers has discovered a black hole 1,000 light years from Earth, the closest yet found to our solar system.
A black hole in the center of the M87 galaxy in the constellation Virgo, which is 50 million light-years away, has been calculated to have a mass equal to that of 3 billion Suns!
An Earth-like planet, which is believed to have conditions which would support life as we know it, has been discovered 500 light years from earth.