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Light travels 186,282.4 miles per second in the vacuum of space. At that speed, it takes the light from the sun about 8 minutes and 18 seconds to reach Earth.

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How long is eight minutes?

8 minutes = 480 seconds = 0.1333333 hours= 0.00555555 days = 0.0007932642 weeks = 0.000002174 yearsIn 8 minutes, light travels 143,900,379.8 km.That is almost the distance from Earth to the Sun.


How many hours of sunlight does earth get each day?

Earth gets 24 hours of sunlight each day. There is always 50% of the Earth illuminated by the sun.


What does the name safi mean?

the sunlight beneath the earth


How many miles can earth travel in one day?

It depends on your frame of reference. The earth travels around the sun. The sun travels around the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy and takes the earth along with it. So the earth travels at the combined speed of those two motions. But then, the Milky Way Galaxy rotates around the centre of our local cluster and takes the Sun and the earth along with it. So the earth travels at the combined speed of those three motions Our local galactic cluster is not static, so ... And so on. Where do you stop and say this is the fixed point of reference against which I will measure the speed of the earth?


How many geographical degrees minutes and seconds longitude does the suns shadow travel in one minute or one second?

The Sun does not have a shadow, objects have shadows cast by the Sun. During a solar eclipse the shadow of the moon travels at varying speeds during different portions of the eclipse (at the beginning and end when the shadow of the moon just has touched the Earth or is about to drop off into space the shadow moves much faster than in the middle near maximum eclipse). The 'Terminator' (the line dividing the illuminated part of the Earth from the part in shadow) travels at 0,25° per minute across the globe.

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How long does it take for sunlight to rach the earth?

Sunlight travels to the Earth in a little bit more than 8 minutes.


How fast does light go from the sun to earth?

Light anywhere travels about 186,000 miles in one second. It takes light 8 minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.


How much sunlight hits the earth every hour?

light that travels from the sun is solar wind. it takes the light 8 minutes to reach earth.


How long does it take for sunlight to hit earth?

it takes about 8 minutes for the sunlight to get to the earth.


How long it takes sunlight to reach earth?

The moon is roughly 250,000 miles from Earth and light travels at about 186,000 miles per second, so it would take about 1.30 seconds for the moonlight to reach Earth.


Which form of energy can travel from the earth to the moon?

Reflected sunlight, for sure, travels from the Earth to the Moon. Reflected sunlight from the Moon also travels to Earth. That is why we can see the Moon.


How long does sunlight take to travel from the sun to earth?

The Earth is (on average) 93 million miles from the Sun, and light travels at 186,000 miles per second. It's a curious coincidence tha the math on this says that light travels from the Sun to the Earth in a nice, round, 500 seconds. This is equal to 8 minutes 20 seconds.


What is the length of time for sunlight to reach earth?

About a second Answer2: it takes about 8 Minutes for sunlight to reach earth, time t=r/c= 150E9/3E8 = 500 seconds. 500s/60s/minute = 8 1/3 minutes.


How many minutes does it take to get to earth?

It takes 8 minutes for the sunlight from the sun to get to Earth.


What is Light from the Sun transfers solar energy to the Earth system Sunlight travels to Earth as wave?

Electromagnetic


What component of sunlight is responsible for heat?

Of all the "sunlight" that travels through space, directed toward the Earth, only the infrared radiation is detected as heat on Earth.


How long does it take sunlight to go from the sun to earth?

It takes sunlight between 8 and 8 1/2 minutes to reach Earth from the Sun. (At the average distance to Earth's orbit, it requires 8.32 minutes.)