The eight minutes from sun to eye is the headline figure, but the photon that landed on your retina spent most of its existence trapped in a dense interior where it could only travel a fraction of a centimeter before colliding with the next nucleus. The post The light hitting your eyes from the sun right now left its surface 8 minutes ago — but the energy behind it may have spent roughly 100,000 years fighting its way out from the core appeared first on Space Daily .
The light hitting your eyes from the sun right now left its surface 8 minutes ago — but the energy behind it may have spent roughly 100,000 years fighting its way out from the core
