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Source: How hot is the Sun? How long does it take for the Sun's rays to reach Earth? | www.windows.ucar.edu
Description: sunlight travels the speed of light which is 186,282 miles per second or 299,792,458 meters per second. This means the light from the Sun takes 8.4 minutes to travel 93 million miles to Earth.
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Sunlight takes just over 8 minutes to reach the Earth. We are 93 million miles from the sun, but light travels at 300,000 km/s.