How long does it take light to travel from the sun and the earth?

Answer 1

about 8 minutes (530 sec)
Around 8 minutes.
It takes about 8 minutes for light from the sun to reach Earth. Actually, the distance between the Earth and the sun varies, because the Earth's orbit is not perfectly circular. We could use the mean (average) distance, which is called an astronomical unit, or AU. 1 AU = 149,598,000 km. Then you can compute the light travel time for this distance, since distance = speed*time. Therefore, time = distance/speed. In this case, the speed of light is c= 299,792.458 km/s. Dividing the distance by the speed, you get 499 seconds or 8.3 minutes.
Roughly 8minutes 20seconds .
8 minutes.

Answer 2

Light from the Sun takes approximately 8 minutes and 20 seconds to travel to Earth. This time is known as the "light travel time." So, when you see the Sun, you are actually seeing it as it appeared over 8 minutes ago due to this travel time.

Answer 3

At the speed of light, almost 300,000 kilometers per second.

Light in a vacuum travels 3x10^8 m/s or 300,000,000 m/s however on Earth particles in the atmosphere slow light down to roughly 198,000,000 m/s or 1/3 slower, if light traveled 300,000,000 on Earth our vision would be severely distored

Answer 4

at a little over 186000 miles per second, about 7 times.

Answer 5

about 480 seconds (60 seconds times 8 minutes).

Answer 6

500 seconds for light to travel on average distance of 93 million miles. 1000 seconds from one end of Earths orbit to the other. Coincidence? Hmmm.

Answer 7

Approximately 500 seconds.