What is a US league?
A US league is three miles or 15,840 feet. The word comes from the Late Latin leuca, a Gaulish measure traditionally taken as an hour's walk.
The league was used for the distance between towns and for a ship's run at sea. The mile and the kilometer replaced it, and it now mostly turns up in older books. A US league of three miles is about 4.83km.
What is a lightyear?
A lightyear is a unit of measurement used in astronomy to describe vast distances in space. It represents the distance that light travels in one year, which is approximately 5.88 trillion miles or 9.46 trillion kilometers. The term "lightyear" is derived from the fact that light, which travels at a speed of about 186,282 miles per second (299,792 kilometers per second), can cover an incredible distance in the span of a year.
Light has a finite speed, so a galaxy a billion lightyears away is seen as it was a billion years ago. That is how astronomers look back at the early universe – the farther the galaxy, the older the picture.