The speed of light is approximately 300,000 kilometers per second, and the average distance between the Sun and the Earth is about 150 million kilometers.
Light from the Sun reaches Earth in about:
Asked in UPPSC Upper Mains 2006 · Topic: Space (Stellar Structure, Evolution, and Nucleosynthesis)
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