What is 3mi in Light Years?

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What is 3 Miles (3mi) in Light Years (ly)?

What is 3mi in ly? Convert 3 Miles (3mi) to Light Years (ly) and show formula, brief history on the units and quick maths for the conversion.

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Quick Reference for Converting Miles to Light Years

Formula
ly = mi / 5878513232720.9
Quick Rough Maths
To get the Light Years, divide the number of Miles by 5.9 trillion
Miles (mi) in 1 Light Year
There are 5878513232720.9 Miles in 1 Light Year
Light Years (ly) in 1 Mile
There are 0 Light Years in 1 Mile

Unit Information

Mile
/mʌɪl/
Symbol: mi
Unit System: Imperial

What is the Mile?

The mile is a unit of length in the imperial unit system with the symbol mi.

It was originally an English unit but was adopted by many countries who all had their own slight variation on definition. The English mile, however, is equal to 63,360 inches, 5280 ft or 1760 yards.

The UK still uses the mile on all roadway signs rather than the kilometre; its SI "equivalent". It used to have the symbol 'm' until SI was established and it was changed to avoid confusion with the unit metre.

Light Year
/lʌɪt jɪə,jəː/
Symbol: ly
Unit System: Astronomical System of Units

What is the Light Year?

The light year is a unit of length in the Astronomical system of units. It uses the symbol ly.

Often confused with a unit of time as it contains the word "year", it is actually defined by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) as the amount of distance that light travels in a vacuum in one Julian year (365.25 days).

Using the speed of light (299,792,458 m/s or 'c') and the Julian year (as apposed to the Gregorian year which is 365.2425 days), we can equivalate 1 light year as 9,460,730,472,580,800 metres or ≈ 9.46 trillion kilometres.


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