Light year (disambiguation)

A light year is the distance that light travels through a vacuum in one year.

Light year(s) and lightyear(s) may also refer to:

Business

Lightyear Entertainment, a movie and music distributor

Film and television

Light Years (film), a 1988 animated science fiction film (also titled Gandahar)

Buzz Lightyear, a fictional character in the animated film series Toy Story

Light Years, an American TV series that has been renamed Life Unexpected

Literature and publications

Light Years: An Investigation into the Extraterrestrial Experiences of Eduard Meier (1987), a non-fiction book by Gary Kinder

Music

Lightyear (band), a ska-punk band from the United Kingdom

Light Years (band), a pop-punk band from Cleveland, Ohio

"Light Year" (Isakov song), a song by Gregory Alan Isakov from his 2009 album This Empty Northern Hemisphere

Light Years (Chick Corea album), a 1987 album by the Chick Corea Elektric Band

Light Years (Glen Campbell album), a 1988 Glen Campbell album

"Light Years" (Jamiroquai song), a song on Jamiroquai's The Return of the Space Cowboy album

Light-year

A light-year (or light year, abbreviation: ly) is a unit of length used informally to express astronomical distances. It is well over 9 trillion kilometres (or about 6 trillion miles). As defined by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), a light-year is the distance that light travels in vacuum in one Julian year. Because it includes the word year, the term light-year is sometimes misinterpreted as a unit of time.

The light-year is most often used when expressing distances to stars and other distances on a galactic scale, especially in non-specialist and popular science publications. The unit usually used in professional astrometry is the parsec (symbol: pc, approximately 3.26 light-years; the distance at which one astronomical unit subtends an angle of one second of arc).

Definitions

As defined by the IAU, the light-year is the product of the Julian year (365.25 days as opposed to the 365.2425-day Gregorian year) and the speed of light (7008299792458000000♠299792458 m/s). Both these values are included in the IAU (1976) System of Astronomical Constants, used since 1984. From this the following conversions can be derived. The internationally recognized abbreviation for light-year is "l.y.").

Yellow Claw

The Yellow Claw is a fictional comic book supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Al Feldstein and artist Joe Maneely, the character first appeared in Yellow Claw #1 (cover-dated Oct. 1956), published by Atlas Comics, the 1950s predecessor of Marvel.

Publication history

While the short-lived espionage series named for him ran only four issues (Oct. 1956 – April 1957), it featured work by such notables as writer Al Feldstein and artist Joe Maneely, who created the character, Jack Kirby, and John Severin, and introduced characters later integrated into Marvel Comics continuity. Kirby took over as writer-artist with issue #2 – inking his own pencil art there and in the following issue, representing two of the very rare occasions on which he did so. Unusually for a Kirby series, other artists drew the covers: Severin on #2 & 4, Bill Everett on #3. The series' influence was felt during the 1960s Silver Age of Comic Books, as writer-artist Jim Steranko brought the Yellow Claw into Marvel Comics continuity, beginning with the "Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D." feature in Strange Tales #160 (Sept. 1967), which introduced a robot version of the character; the actual Yellow Claw resurfaced later. Woo was reintroduced that same issue, eventually joining the espionage agency S.H.I.E.L.D. in Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #2 (July 1968).

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Positive Outlook, Lightyear

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Ooh No Not Me Arteries, Lightyear

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Uri Geller Bent My Heart, Lightyear

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Tread Lightly Speak Dearly

Tread lightly
Speak dearly
Enough of this
I'm a fucking passive counterfeit
Won't hide my
Hide my head in the rain
The weakness leaves me
Much stronger with every grain
Another reason
My prettiest
Just picture this
I'm fucked if I know
The whole procedure
I'm running and falling
I'm tearless, I need ya
Some indecision
This isn't working any more
Save us two some pain
A face to ignore
A self-expression
Conjures up your name
A concentration
Of times that we were the same
And my confidence has left me too
I'm fucked if I know
The whole procedure
I'm running and falling
I'm tearless, I need ya
Some indecision
This isn't working any more
Save us two some pain
A face to ignore
I'm fucked if I know
The whole procedure
I'm running and falling
I'm tearless, I need ya
Some indecision
This isn't working any more

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Astronomers are using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to study auroras — stunning light shows in a planet's atmosphere — on the poles of the largest planet in the solar system, Jupiter.

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It shows a long-lived anticyclonic oval storm in Jupiter's northern polar region named (this isn’t a typo) North North Temperate Little Red Spot 1 (NN-LRS-1) ... For example, the Great Red Spot, Jupiter’s most famous storm, has raged for more than 400 years.When Juno snapped this image it was about 11,444 kilometers (7,111 miles) from the top of Jupiter’s clouds....

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In this Saturday, Aug. 5, 2017, photo, organizers of a peace prayer event light up torches on floats on the Motoyasu River next to the Atomic Bomb Dome in Hiroshima, western Japan, on the eve of the 72nd anniversary of the first U.S. atomic attack that killed 140,000 people in the city.

Japan marks 72 years since world’s first atomic bomb attack at Hiroshima

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Hubble detects Exoplanet with glowing water atmosphere

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Water vapour in the planet's atmosphere, for example, behaves in predictable ways in response to different wavelengths of light, depending on the temperature of the water ... WASP-121b, located approximately 900 light years from Earth, is a gas giant exoplanet commonly referred to as a ‘hot Jupiter’, although with a greater mass and radius than Jupiter, making it much puffier....

Bolt bows out with a bronze in final 100

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The 35-year-old, who has served two doping bans and been widely cast as a villain to Bolt's hero, went sprawling to the ground with a huge smile ... Coleman, a 21-year-old in the first major race of his life, was in shock, too ... Bolt raced very lightly this year, and his best time coming into the meet was the same 9.95 seconds he ran in his finale....

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Bronze and gone: In a shocker, Usain Bolt takes third at worlds

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Usain Bolt takes bronze at IAAF Worlds in his final 100m race , Justin Gatlin wins

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Survey reveals most accurate measurement of dark matter structure in the Universe

Edit Astronomy/Spaceflight Now 05 Aug 2017

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Scientists make most accurate measurement of elusive dark matter

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Tea report: Karunaratne, Mendis hold fort after India enforce follow-on

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Colombo Test: Sri Lanka resist after India enforce follow-on

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Scientists discover glowing water molecules in a giant Jupiter-like planet

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Scientists have discovered glowing water molecules in the atmosphere of a giant planet located 900 light years from Earth. Scientists have for the first time discovered glowing water molecules in the atmosphere of a giant Jupiter-like planet located 900 light years from Earth that is hot enough to boil iron ... At cooler temperatures, water vapour blocks light from beneath it....

Hot exoplanet with glowing water atmosphere found

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Light year (disambiguation)

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Yellow Claw - Light Years (feat. Rochelle)

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How far is a lightyear?

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