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∙ 10y agoLight 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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∙ 10y ago8 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.
Earth gets 24 hours of sunlight each day. There is always 50% of the Earth illuminated by the sun.
the sunlight beneath the earth
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?
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.
Sunlight takes approximately 8 minutes and 20 seconds to travel from the Sun to Earth. It travels at a speed of about 300,000 kilometers per second.
Sunlight travels to the Earth in a little bit more than 8 minutes.
Light anywhere travels about 186,000 miles in one second. It takes light 8 minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.
On average, about 174,000 terawatts of solar energy reach the Earth every hour. This energy is in the form of sunlight, which powers various processes on Earth, including photosynthesis and the generation of wind.
It takes about 8 minutes and 20 seconds for sunlight to travel from the Sun to Earth. This light speed is about 299,792 kilometers per second.
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.
Since sunlight travels at the speed of light, it takes about 8 minutes and 20 seconds for sunlight to reach Earth from the Sun. So, if the Sun sets at 5 o'clock, the sunlight reaching Earth at that time actually left the Sun about 8 minutes and 20 seconds prior.
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.
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.
About [ 8 and 1/3 ] minutes ... same as every other point on earth.(The earth's diameter is about 0.04 light-second. Its circumference is about 0.13 light-second.)
Sunlight, or sunrays, travels at the speed of light, which is about 186,282 miles per second (299,792 kilometers per second) in a vacuum. When sunlight enters the Earth's atmosphere, it slows down slightly due to interactions with particles in the atmosphere, but it still travels at a very fast speed.
It takes approximately 8 minutes and 20 seconds for sunlight to reach Earth from the Sun.