How many minutes does sunlight take to reach Earth?
Light is the fastest thing there is, but the Sun is about 150 million km away. How long ago did the sunlight landing on you now leave the Sun's surface?
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About 8.3 minutes. Getting out of the Sun is the slow part: energy made at the core is thought to take between 10,000 and 170,000 years to work its way up to the surface.