How many light years from the earth is the sun?

Answer 1

At what speed?The closest Venus comes to Earth in its orbit around the Sun is about 25 million miles. If you were traveling to Venus in a rocket ship at a speed of 25,000 miles per hour, it would take you 1000 hours to get there, or 41.66 days.

Answer 2

The sun is about 8.31 Light Minutes away from earth. That's just down the road a piece in astronomical terms. The sunlight that warms you left the sun about 8.31 minutes before encountering your skin.

Answer 3

The rough average distance between the sun and earth is around 93 million miles.

That's equivalent to about 0.0000158 light-year.

Light takes about 8 1/3 minutes to travel from the sun to the earth ... about 0.0000158 of a year.
The average distance is about 1.58203628 × 10-5 light years.

A little over 8 minutes. So, less than 1 light year. The sun is 93 million miles away, and light travels 186,000 miles per second, so light would cover that distance in 500 seconds, or about 8 minutes.

One light year is about 5.9 trillion miles.
The sun is about 8.5 light-minutes from Earth.

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To answer your question, that's about 0.00001582 of a light-year. (rounded)
The Earth's orbit averages about 93 million miles from the Sun; about 8.3 light minutes.

The distance between the earth and the sun is 93,000,000 miles.

The time it takes light to travel this distance is 93,000,000

miles/186,000 miles/sec or 500 seconds.

Hence the time is 500sec/60 or 8.333 minutes

8.333/(60x24x365) = or 0.00001585 light years.

Answer 4

a It's inconvenient to express a distance this short (!) in light-years since it only takes light about 8 minutes to go that far. The average distance from the Earth to the Sun is 150 million km. Keep in mind that this is just an average. In reality, the Earth's orbit around the Sun is elliptical. This means that it follows the path of an ellipse around the Sun, and not a perfect circle. When the Earth is at its closest point to the Sun, which astronomers call perihelion, it's only 147 million km. And when the Earth is at its furthest point from the Sun, astronomers call this aphelion. At this point, Earth is 152 million km from the Sun.

Answer 5

A year is a measure of time.

A light-year is a measure of distance - the distance light travels in a year.

The sun is about 150 million kilometres from the Earth - 96 million miles.

The speed of light in a vacuum is roughly 300,000,000 metres per second, so the light from the Sun takes about 8.3 minutes to reach the Earth.

Answer 6

average sun distance form earth : 149669180 Km

1 light year = 9460528400000 Km

distance covered by light in 1 year = 9460528400000 Km

distance covered in 1 Sec = 299786 Km

149669180 km covered in = 149669180/299786 s

= 499.25 light seconds

= 18 light min 19.25 light seconds

Answer 7

Venus rotates clockwise (called "retrograde" rotation) once every 243 Earth days-by far the slowest rotation period of any major planet. The equator of the Venusian surface rotates at 6.5 km/h, while on Earth rotation speed at the equator is about 1,670 km/h.

Answer 8

The distance between Venus and Earth can be anything between 25.8 million and 160.2 million miles.

The corresponding travel times at light speed are between 138 seconds and 860 seconds ...

from 2min18sec to 14min20sec .

Answer 9

Depends entirely on the speed at which you travel and the location of Venus and Earth to each other.

At perigee (Closest) Venus is about 38.1 million kilometers away (0.255 AU).

At apogee (Furthest) Venus is about 261 million kilometers away (1.74 AU)

An average distance would therefore be 149,550,000 kilometers - say 150 million.

At 100 kph it would be 1,500,000 hours or 171 years.

Answer 10

The planet Venus orbits the Sun in about 225 Earth days, while it takes 243 Earth days to spin once on its axis. So the "day" is longer than the "year"!

However, you wouldn't notice much of either if you lived there. (You couldn't; the clouds of Venus are boiling sulfuric acid.) The clouds are so thick that you would never be able to see the Sun at all. Venus spins on an axis that it nearly perpendicular to the plane of its orbit, so there would be any seasons there, and the planet's orbit is very nearly circular.

Here on Earth, the significance of the "year" primarily relates to the changing seasons and the requirement to plant crops at the appropriate season. With no Venusian seasons and no ability to see the sky, all you would notice would be 121 days of diffuse light followed by 121 days of "mostly dark".

Corrections: The 243 Earth days IS the time for Venus

to spin once and it's called the sidereal day.

However there is also the "solar day" which is about 116.5 Earth days on Venus. This depends on the planet's orbital motion as well as its spin.

It's the solar day which you need to consider when working out how much

daylight you have. So it's roughly 58 days of "diffuse light" not 121.