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Roughly how long does it take for the sun’s light to reach Earth – 8 minutes, 8 hours or 8 days?
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Roughly how long does it take for the sun’s light to reach Earth – 8 minutes, 8 hours or 8 days?

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8 minutes because the sun is very far away.
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8 minutes

Step-by-step explanation:

Light travels at a speed of 299,792 kilometers per second; 186,287 miles per second. It takes 499.0 seconds for light to travel from the Sun to the Earth, a distance called 1 Astronomical Unit.

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