Sunlight Is Way Older Than You Think. Here’s Why…

↓ More info and sources below ↓ If the sun instantly switched off like a light bulb–which can’t happen, by the way–then we wouldn’t know for almost 8 and a half minutes. Light travels at the fastest speed there is, but it still takes almost 500 seconds to get to Earth. That’s how long it would take...

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