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(Latin: year, years)
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(Latin: from Old French seculer; from Late Latin sæcularis, worldly, living in the world, not belonging to a religious order; from saecularis, pertaining to a generation or age; from saeculum, saeclum, period of a man's life, generation; period of a hundred years)
(Latin vetus: old, aged, old age; many years, a long time; elder, elderly; senior)
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A period of approximately 220 million years, the time it takes for the sun to make one orbit around the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.
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Reader's Digest of Man; The Last Two Million Years
The Reader's Digest Association, Inc.; Pleasantville, New York; 1973; page 64.
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(these words have become a part of the English language over recent years)
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The time it takes the Sun to travel around the center of the galaxy: A cosmic year, the period of revolution of the Sun around the galaxy, takes roughly 22.5 million years.
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The distance traveled by a beam of light in a vacuum in one year, approximately 9.46 trillion (million million) kilometers or 5.99 trillion miles: A light-year has an average speed of 186,291 miles or 299,792 kilometers, per second; which equals approximately 5.88 trillion miles or 9.4607 trillion kilometers, or 63,246 astronomical units.
The light-year is also divided into light-minutes and light-seconds. For example, the Moon is 1.3 light-seconds from the Earth and the Sun is 8.3 light-minutes away from the Earth.
Although a light-year is a measurement of distance and not time, it does imply time, such as the light from a star that is ten light-years from the Earth takes ten years to reach the Earth. So, an observer on Earth is seeing the star as it appeared ten years ago.
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