What is the approximate value for the amount of time it takes a light ray to travel from tne sun to the earth?

Question

The average distance between the earth and the sun is 93 million miles . The velocity of a light ray moving through a vacuum (space) is 186,000 miles per second

Answer 1

The value given in the Observer's Handbook 2008 of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada is

499.0047864 seconds for 1 astronomical unit.

(1 au = 149,597,871.5 km)

(1 au = 92,955,807 US miles)

c = 299,792.5 km/s = 186,282.4 mi/s

Answer 2

8 minutes.

HTH

Charles

Answer 3

It takes 8 minutes for light to travel through space

Answer 4

The distance between the earth and the sun is 93,000,000 miles.

The time it takes light to travel this distance is 93,000,000

miles/186,000 miles/sec or 500 seconds. Hence the time is 500sec/60 or

8.333 minutes. What fraction of a year is 8.333 minutes, well that is

8.333/(60x24x365) = or 0.00001585 light years.

Answer 5

8 minutes...  93 million miles at 186,000 miles per second.