When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The speed of light traveling through a vacuum is exactly 299,792,458 meters (983,571,056 feet) ...

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This faint glow after dusk isn’t the Milky Way. It’s dust from across the solar system. The zodiacal light glows to the left of the Milky Way in this 2013 photograph from Amboseli National Park, Kenya ...

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The universe has a speed limit, and it's the speed of light. Nothing can travel faster than light — not even our best spacecraft — according to the laws of physics. So, what is the speed of light?