{"id":9615,"date":"2012-03-26T16:19:40","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T23:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=9615"},"modified":"2012-03-26T16:19:40","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T23:19:40","slug":"how-long-it-takes-light-from-the-sun-to-reach-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2012\/03\/how-long-it-takes-light-from-the-sun-to-reach-the-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"How Long it Takes Light from the Sun to Reach the Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/light-from-sun-to-earth-tim.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9619\" title=\"light-from-sun-to-earth-tim\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/light-from-sun-to-earth-tim.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/light-from-sun-to-earth-tim.jpg 559w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/light-from-sun-to-earth-tim-340x202.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Light travels from the Sun to the Earth in about 8 minutes and 19 seconds. While it only takes 8 minutes and 19 seconds for the light from the surface of the sun to reach us, it actually takes about 10,000-170,000 years for a photon to travel from the core of the sun to the surface.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Sun is White\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/the-sun-is-white-not-yellow\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sources and Further Reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Light travels from the Sun to the Earth in about 8 minutes and 19 seconds. While it only takes 8 minutes and 19 seconds for the light from the surface of the sun to reach us, it actually takes about 10,000-170,000 years for a photon to travel from the core of the sun to the surface. Sources and Further Reading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[1144,267,1112,2337],"class_list":["post-9615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-astronomy-facts","tag-facts","tag-quick-facts-2","tag-time-from-earth-to-sun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9615"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9621,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9615\/revisions\/9621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}