124 light years is the distance that light travels in 124 years. In terms of meters, this distance is approximately 1.173×10181.173\times 10^{18}1.173×1018 meters. To put this in more familiar units, 124 light years is about 7.29×10147.29\times 10^{14}7.29×1014 miles
. This distance is incredibly vast compared to everyday scales; for example, it is about 3 billion times the distance from the Earth to the Moon
. Thus, 124 light years represents an immense cosmic scale, illustrating how far light can travel over more than a century.
