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On average, sunlight takes 8 minutes and 20 seconds to reach the Earth. That means that any sunlight one sees is over 8 minutes old by the time one has seen it. In addition, if the sun were to disappear instantly, it would be over 8 minutes before the people of Earth could realize it.

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It varies from 490.9 to 507.6 seconds, because the Earth's orbit is not a

perfect circle, so the distance from the sun varies slightly through the year.

Between 8minutes10.9seconds and 8minutes27.6seconds

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It takes about 10,000 and 170,000 years for the Sun's energy to reach the Sun's surface.

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It takes 8.3 minutes for the Sun's rays to hit Earth.

Earth - Sun distance (93,000,000 miles), divided by speed of light in a vacuum (186,282 miles per second) equals 8.32 minutes.

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I'm not sure exactly but it takes about a million years for the energy made in the core of the sun to reach the sun's surface.

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About 8 minutes

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