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How many years does a photon need to travel from the Sun's core to its surface?
Around 100,000
Background
A photon needs about 100,000 years to travel from the Sun's core to its surface. In the dense core it keeps bumping into other particles. Only at the surface does it finally get free. Then it races to Earth in only eight minutes.
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