Zeta-2 is a mere 155 light years distant and much less luminous in real terms.
"But there is a star system just two light years' distant."
Reading Cicero makes you feel a delightful 2,000 years distant from high school.
We are a team of investigators who come from many light years distant.
The second is a novella set in 1985, seven years distant at the time of the novel's writing.
Neither planet could be seen optically, the star being 30,000 light years distant from the Earth.
I imagine him in that distant year turning on his TV set one morning.
He was not thinking of the distant years and what they might bring.
HD 41004 is a complex binary system about 139 light years distant.
It is 71.5 light years distant from the Earth.