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How fast does light travel from the sun to earth?

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11y ago

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Light travels at the same speed anywhere in space. Radio, heat, and X-rays also

travel at that same speed.

299,792,458 meters per second

186,282 miles per second

So it takes approximately 8 minutes for the light to travel from the sun to the earth. which is mighty fast.

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It travels at the rate of about 300,000 kilometers (186,300 miles) per second,

exactly the same as all other forms of electromagnetic radiation.

At that rate, the duration of the trip from the Sun to Earth is about 500 seconds.

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It takes about 8 minutes from light to travel from the Sun to the Earth.

Light has the same speed from the Sun to Neptune as it is from the Sun to Earth, which is about 299,792,458 meters per second.

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About 8 hours.

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