How many light years from the earth is the sun?

Answer 1

The sun is not light years away but light minutes and the sun is 8 (rounded) light minutes away from us. But if you really want to know how far away the sun is from us in light years it is 0.000015 of a light year away from us.

Answer 2

At what speed?The closest Venus comes to Earth in its orbit around the Sun is about 25 million miles. If you were traveling to Venus in a rocket ship at a speed of 25,000 miles per hour, it would take you 1000 hours to get there, or 41.66 days.

Answer 3

The sun is about 8.31 Light Minutes away from earth. That's just down the road a piece in astronomical terms. The sunlight that warms you left the sun about 8.31 minutes before encountering your skin.

Answer 4

The rough average distance between the sun and earth is around 93 million miles.

That's equivalent to about 0.0000158 light-year.

Light takes about 8 1/3 minutes to travel from the sun to the earth ... about 0.0000158 of a year.
The average distance is about 1.58203628 × 10-5 light years.

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.
The sun is about 8.5 light-minutes from Earth.

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To answer your question, that's about 0.00001582 of a light-year. (rounded)
The Earth's orbit averages about 93 million miles from the Sun; about 8.3 light minutes.

The distance between the earth and the sun is 93,000,000 miles.

The time it takes light to travel this distance is 93,000,000

miles/186,000 miles/sec or 500 seconds.

Hence the time is 500sec/60 or 8.333 minutes

8.333/(60x24x365) = or 0.00001585 light years.

Answer 5

The sun is about 93 million miles (150 million kilometers) away from Earth, not light years. In light years, the sun is about 0.000016 light years away from Earth, which is relatively close in astronomical terms.

Answer 6

A year is a measure of time.

A light-year is a measure of distance - the distance light travels in a year.

The sun is about 150 million kilometres from the Earth - 96 million miles.

The speed of light in a vacuum is roughly 300,000,000 metres per second, so the light from the Sun takes about 8.3 minutes to reach the Earth.

Answer 7

The Alpha Centauri system is actually three stars. They are collectively the second closest stars to Earth (the closest one being, of course, the Sun) that we know of.

It's possible that the Sun could have a red or brown dwarf companion at a distance of, say, 1.5 light years. This hypothetical companion even has a name: Nemesis. However, no such star has yet been found.

The three stars in the Alpha Centauri system are called Alpha Centauri A, B, and C. A and B are stars roughly like the Sun that are relatively close together. C is a red dwarf considerably further out. C is sometimes called "Proxima" because its orbit can bring it closer to the Sun than any other star we know of.

Answer 8

average sun distance form earth : 149669180 Km

1 light year = 9460528400000 Km

distance covered by light in 1 year = 9460528400000 Km

distance covered in 1 Sec = 299786 Km

149669180 km covered in = 149669180/299786 s

= 499.25 light seconds

= 18 light min 19.25 light seconds

Answer 9

Venus rotates clockwise (called "retrograde" rotation) once every 243 Earth days-by far the slowest rotation period of any major planet. The equator of the Venusian surface rotates at 6.5 km/h, while on Earth rotation speed at the equator is about 1,670 km/h.

Answer 10

The distance between Venus and Earth can be anything between 25.8 million and 160.2 million miles.

The corresponding travel times at light speed are between 138 seconds and 860 seconds ...

from 2min18sec to 14min20sec .