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How long does it take sunlight to travel from the Sun to Earth?
The answer
About 8 minutes
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Light travels at roughly 186,000 miles per second, and the Sun is about 93 million miles from Earth. That means sunlight takes approximately 8 minutes and 20 seconds to reach us — so the sunlight you see is always slightly old.
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