That statement is not true. It takes light about 8 minutes to get here from the Sun. The distance is 8 light minutes or 93 million miles.
It takes approximately 8 minutes for the Sun's light to reach Earth.
If you mean light from the Sun, then it takes eight minutes for the light to reach the Earth.
It takes light around 8 minutes and 19 seconds to reach the earth from the sun.
Light travels at 186,000 miles per hour, and the Earth orbits about 93,000,000 miles from the Sun. When you do the math, you find that the Sun's light takes about 500 seconds to reach the Earth. There are 60 seconds in one minute, so the Earth is about 8.3 light-minutes away from the Sun.
It takes about 8 minutes and 20 seconds for light from the sun to reach the Earth.
light takes about eight minutes
light from the sun
About 37 years.
The light takes about 640 years to reach Earth, as Betelgeuse (a red supergiant star) is about 640 light years from Earth.
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8 minutes.
A few kilometers. It takes light about 8 minutes to reach Earth.