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A light-year is the distance that light travels through a vacuum in one year.

Light year(s) and lightyear(s) may also refer to:

Film and television

• Buzz Lightyear, a main character in the animated film series Toy Story
  • Lightyear (film), a spin-off animated film featuring the character
• Gandahar (film), a 1988 animated science fiction film known as Light Years in English
• Light Years (2015 film), a British drama film
• Light Years, an American TV series that has been renamed Life Unexpected
• Light Years, a Singaporean drama produced by Mediacorp Channel 5

Music

• Lightyear (band), ska-punk band from the United Kingdom
• Light Years (band), pop-punk band from Cleveland, Ohio
• The Lightyears, pop-rock band based in London, England

Albums

• Light Years (Chick Corea album), 1987
• Light Years, The Very Best of Electric Light Orchestra, 1997 compilation album by Electric Light Orchestra
• Light Years (Glen Campbell album), 1988
• Light Years (Kylie Minogue album), 2000
• Light Year, a 2021 album by Emma Stevens
• Light Years, a 2005 album by Kathy Valentine
• Light Years, a 2012 album by Kora
• Light Years, a 2014 album by Noah23 and David Klopek
• Light Years, a 2008 album by The Shore
• Lightyears, a 2014 album by David Ryan Harris
• Lightyears, a 2012 EP by Mansions on the Moon
• Lightyears, a 2007 album by Shin Terai, Bill Laswell and Buckethead
• Lightyears, a 2001 album by Sunbeam
• A series of 1995 compilation albums by Christian artists, including:
  • The Light Years by Allies
  • The Light Years by Andraé Crouch
  • The Light Years by Bryan Duncan
  • The Light Years by Resurrection Band
  • The Light Years by Sweet Comfort Band
  • The Light Years by Walter Hawkins

Songs

• "Light Years" (Jamiroquai song), 1994
• "Light Years" (Pearl Jam song), 2000
• "Light Years", 1994 song by Heather Nova from Oyster
• "Lightyears", 1996 song by Eraserheads from Fruitcake (album)
• "Lightyear", 1997 song by Mentallo & The Fixer from Burnt Beyond Recognition
• "Light Years", 2019 song by The National from I Am Easy to Find
• "Light Year", 2018 song by The Story So Far from Proper Dose

Other uses

• Lightyear Entertainment, a movie and music distributor
• Light Years (book), a 1975 novel by James Salter
• Light Years: An Investigation into the Extraterrestrial Experiences of Eduard Meier (1987), a non-fiction book by Gary Kinder
• Lightyear 0, a Dutch electric car

See also

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• All pages with titles containing lightyear
• Parsec (disambiguation)
• Light (disambiguation)
• LY (disambiguation)
• Year

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