How many miles does light travel in 3 months? And more specifically what galaxies/planets or comets are 3 light-months away? Thanks!
If a light year is less than 6 trillion miles, I don't see how a quarter of one can be 14 trillion miles.
c = 3,000,000,000 m/s. 3 months (call it 90 days) 7,776,000 seconds. This is 2.333x 10^16 m, which is roughly 1.46 trillion miles (I had 14.6 trillion originally - I had a decimal place off). There is virtually nothing at that distance. Possibly some far-flung comets or just hunks of rock floating around. The furthest planets are about 5-6 light hours away, and then the next closest object is proxima centauri, which is about 4 light YEARS away.
Light travels a distance of 3 light-months in 3 months. That's 1/4 of a light year (the distance light travels in a year). 1/4 of a light year takes you out of the solar system and past the Kuiper belt (the collection of objects orbiting far from the Sun), but won't get you to the next nearest star (Proxima Centauri), which is 4.3 light years away.
Light travels at 670,616,629 mph - 16,094,799,096 miles a day - so in 90 days it would travel 1,448,531,918,640 miles.
