How much time taken by sunlight to reach earth


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What is the time taken by the sunlight to reach the earth surface?

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Photons emitted from the surface of the Sun need to travel across the vacuum of space to reach our eyes. The short answer is that it takes sunlight an average of 8 minutes and 20 seconds to travel from the Sun to the Earth.

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