Space: Light takes about 8 minutes and 20 seconds to travel fr…

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Did you know? Light takes about 8 minutes and 20 seconds to travel from Sun to Earth. But from the SURFACE of the Sun outward it takes 100,000-200,000 years — photons constantly collide with each other in the dense plasma inside. The sunlight you feel today was born in the Sun's core 100,000 years ago.

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Light takes about 8 minutes and 20 seconds to travel from Sun to Earth. But from the SURFACE of the Sun outward it takes 100,000-200,000 years — photons constantly collide with each other in the dense plasma inside. The sunlight you feel today was born in the Sun's core 100,000 years ago.

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