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Sunlight arrives eight minutes late.
The sunlight reaching Earth right now left the Sun’s surface about eight minutes and twenty seconds ago.
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Light travels at roughly 300,000 kilometres a second. The Sun is about 150 million kilometres away. Divide the distance by the speed and you get roughly 500 seconds.
So even an ordinary patch of sunlight has spent a little over eight minutes travelling through space before reaching you.
