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Answer A light year is a unit of distance It is the distance that light can travel in one year Light moves at a velocity of about 300 000

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L LIGHT YEAR The distance light can travel in one year which is 9 500 000 000 000 kilometers LUNAR MODULE The section of

https://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov › docs › StarChild › questions › supernovae.html
Supernovae At large distances up to about 1 billion light years astronomers can no longer use methods such as parallax or

https://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov › docs › StarChild › universe.html
The universe is a vast expanse of space which contains all of the matter and energy in existence The universe contains all of the

https://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov › docs › StarChild › jupiter.html
Jupiter is so large that all of the other planets in the solarsystem could fit inside of it Jupiter is a large gasplanet whose clouds

https://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov › docs › StarChild › neptune.html
Voyager 2 a space probe passed within 4900 kilometers of Neptune in 1989 From the data collected we know that Uranus and

https://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov › docs › StarChild › makemake.html
Makemake was first discovered in 2005 It was formally recognized as a dwarf planet in 2008 by the International Astronomical

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Eris the largest known dwarf planet was first detected in data collected in October of 2003 It was not identified until January of

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StarChild is a learning center for young astronomers ages 5 13 to learn about the solar system the Milky Way