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lfernandez lfernandez
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11 years ago
How do we measure the distance in space is it light years or CMEs?
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11 years ago
light years
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11 years ago
CME refers to Coronal Mass Ejection, a type of solar event where part of the Sun's corona is blasted outward into space.  That has nothing to do with distance measurements.  Light Years represent a distance of just under 6,000,000,000,000 (6 trillion in the American way of counting) miles.
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11 years ago
we measure distances in space using light years and Parsecs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsec

http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/question39.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-year
Julie Appleton
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11 years ago
It's still light years which equals 5,900,000,000,000 miles (5 trillion, 900 billion) or parsecs which equals 3.26 light years.
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11 years ago
Light years, Parsecs and Astronomical Units are all common units in astronomy for larger distances
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11 years ago
Lightyears, CME has nothing to do with distance.
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