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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.
Exameter or examatre is a unit of length equal to 1018meters. This unit is a combination of the metric prefix exa (E) and the SI unit of length meter (m) and its abbreviated as "Em". Plural name is exameters.