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It is believed that a photon of light takes about a million years to travel from the centre of the Sun to the Photosphere.

This is because the gamma rays (high-energy photons) released in fusion reactions are absorbed in only a few millimeters of solar plasma and then re-emitted again in random direction and at slightly lower energy.

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