Light Years

The expansion rate became known as the Hubble constant; Hubble thought it was 500 kilometers per second every 3.26 million light-years, that is, every megaparsec. ❋ Ann Finkbeiner (2010)

Approximately 800 light-years from Earth, the DSX-13 “dropped” out of hyperspace, and reentered conventional space-time. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Quantity counts as well as quality, and here Microsoft will inevitably start out light-years behind the iPhone and Android. ❋ Rob Pegoraro (2010)

The Andromeda Galaxy is 2.5 million light-years away. ❋ Holly Hobbs (2010)

Seeing a star get ripped apart by a black hole from almost 4 billion light-years away, that's a remarkable thing, says astronomer Dave Goldberg, co-author of A User's Guide to the Universe: Surviving the Perils of Black Holes, Time Paradoxes, and Quantum Uncertainty, who was not part of the studies. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Early in the case, the Scott team participated in a pointless mediation with the church, in which both sides had been light-years apart in their demands. ❋ Lisa Davis (2011)

The bow of the ship was over a billion light-years into this universe before we fully converted. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Tessa seemed a million light-years away at the far end of the house with the night nurse. ❋ Andrea Buchanan (2011)

How many light-years must one travel in order to find one? ❋ Unknown (2010)

At home, he uses a 16-inch-mirror telescope, which has allowed him to see 56 million light-years away. ❋ Holly Hobbs (2010)

We may have modeled our government on British liberal ideals, but they are light-years ahead of us as far as public accountability. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But it was still light-years away from a practical machine. ❋ Mark Alpert (2011)

“If that were true, our ship would be millions of light-years long in this universe.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

We make light-years more arrests on random patrols than at checkpoints. ❋ Unknown (2011)

And the danger could cascade across thousands of light-years, threatening uncounted worlds — including Earth. ❋ Unknown (2009)

1. The nearest star is about 4 light years away, and our [galaxy] is about 100,000 light years across. 2. If [alien's] exist, [chances] are they're light years ahead of us in technology. ❋ OneBadAsp (2006)

[Proxima] Centauri is [4.3] light-years from [the Sun]. ❋ Sek (2005)

[That girl] is so [light-yeared]! ❋ Juice Box 88 (2019)

I wish I had [a boyfriend] who [wrote] me [a song] like 2000 light years away. ❋ Rreenfay (2011)

[Nasa] [Scientist] 1: I can't wait to rip off tax payers with the heliocentric bullshit. Nasa Scientist 2: Yea it'll take these dim [wits] several light years to get the joke. Nasa Scientist 1: yea lol, wankers ❋ Basedaf111 (2022)

Person A: What is a [lightyear] Person: B: Light year is the only way to [measure] the size of [ur mother] ❋ Dickchungus (2021)