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The light-year is a unit of length used to express astronomical distances. It is about 9.5 quadrillion metres or 5.9 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 (365.25 days). Because it includes the word "year", the term light-year is sometimes misinterpreted as a unit of time.
An attometer is a unit of length, a combination of the metric prefix atto (symbol a) and the SI unit of length meter (symbol m), equal to 10−18 meter or 1.0E-18 meter and its symbol is am. Plural name is attometers.