What is the distance in light years of the sun to earth?

Answer 1

Less than 1 light year. Lots less. It's not a light year away, it's 8.333 light minutes away . Light travels about 5.9 trillion miles in a year, and the sun is only 93 million miles away. The speed of light is 186,000 miles/second, so light from the sun reaches the earth in 500 seconds, or 8 minutes and 20 seconds.

So, the sun is about 0.0000158 light years from the earth.

Answer 2

The distance from the Sun to Earth is approximately 1 astronomical unit (AU), which is about 93 million miles or 150 million kilometers. In terms of light years, this distance is about 0.0000158 light years or about 8.3 light minutes.

Answer 3

A light year is the distance light travels in a year. The distance between the Earth and Sun is about 8 light minutes- it takes light 8 minutes to travel this distance.

A light year is the distance light travels in a year. The distance between the Earth and Sun is about 8 light minutes - it takes light 8 minutes to travel this distance.

A light year is the distance light travels in a year. The distance between the Earth and Sun is about 8 light minutes - it takes light 8 minutes to travel this distance.

A light year is the distance light travels in a year. The distance between the Earth and Sun is about 8 light minutes - it takes light 8 minutes to travel this distance.

Answer 4

A little over 8 minutes. So, less than 1 light year. The sun is 93 million miles away, and light travels 186,000 miles per second, so light would cover that distance in 500 seconds, or about 8 minutes.

One light year is about 5.9 trillion miles, so the sun is much closer than that.

It is about 93.2 mill miles away

Answer 5

A light-year is 9,460,528,400,000 km, the average distance between Earth and Mercury is about 155,000,000 km (though it varies between about 77,000,000 km and 220,000,000 km). This means the average distance to Mercury in light-years is 0.00001638. To measure this in a more useful way we might instead talk about light-minutes (the distance light travels in a minute), each of which are 17,999,483 km. Mercury thus averages approximately 8.6 light-minutes distance from Earth.

Answer 6

It would depend upon the relative positions of the planets, but it will always be between about 4 minutes and 13 minutes.

The minimum distance between the two planets occurs about once every 10 years and is about 77 million kilometers. The other extreme occurs when Earth and Mercury are on opposite sides of the Sun, at a distance of about 222 million kilometers. If you divide by the approximate speed of light (300,000 km/sec), you find that the time would be between 257 seconds (4 minutes 17 seconds) and 740 seconds (12 minutes 20 seconds).

Answer 7

The distance between the Earth and the Sun is much less than a light year. Light travels a light year in a year. Light travels from the Sun to the Earth in about 9 minutes.

Other than the Sun, the nearest other star is over 4 light years away.

Answer 8

Earth is about 8.33 light minutes from the Sun. In light years it is:

8.33/(365.25 x 24 x 60) = 0.0000158

Answer 9

The earth is only about 8 light Minutes away from earth, if you want that in terms of a fraction of a light year it comes out at 0.0000152207001522070015220700152207 of a light year

Answer 10

The distance from Earth to Sun is about 8 light-minutes.