Every "How long..." question can be answered with the question "how fast...". It will be another hundred years or more before humans will ever be able to go to Neptune, and we will probably NEVER be able to land there. To send a robotic space probe, like the Cassini probe to Saturn, would probably take about 8 years from launch to arrival AT OUR CURRENT LEVEL OF TECHNOLOGY.
Wait another 10 years before launching, and there is every chance that the probe would arrive in five years or less. That's because rocket propulsion technology is advancing nicely. In fact, there is every possibility that within 25 years we would be able to launch a probe to Neptune or beyond that would travel ten or one hundred times faster than the Cassini probe did. This is because the probe would be assembled and launched from Earth orbit rather than having to launch directly from the Earth itself. A rocket to Neptune uses up most of its fuel just getting out of the Earth's gravity well, to say nothing of actually going anyplace else.
It takes about 8 minutes and 20 seconds for sunlight to reach Earth.
It takes about 8 minutes and 20 seconds for sunlight to reach the Earth.
From the core, photons take about a million years to reach the surface. From there, they are free to travel and only take just over 8 minutes to reach the Earth.
It takes about 8 minutes and 20 seconds for light from the sun to reach the Earth.
It depends on how fast you are travelling.
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It will take 8 minutes for the light from the sun to reach Earth. The actual heat of the sun does not reach all the way out to Earth. The warmth on Earth comes from the conversion of light energy to heat energy.