Light from the Sun reaches us in nearly
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2 minutes
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4 minutes
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8 minutes
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16 minutes
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Explanation
At Earth's average distance of 149.6 million km from the Sun and light's speed of 300,000 km/s, sunlight takes approximately 500 seconds (8 minutes 20 seconds) to reach us. The value of 8 minutes is the standard approximation used.
AI explanation
Sunlight travels at the speed of light (about 300,000 km/s) across roughly 150 million kilometers of space between the Sun and Earth, which takes approximately 8 minutes and 20 seconds. This is commonly rounded to 'about 8 minutes' in general knowledge questions.