The Earth is, on average, about 93,000,000 miles from the Sun, and light travels at 186,000 miles per second. Divide one number by the other, and you see that light takes almost exactly 500 seconds to reach the Earth That's 8 minutes 20 seconds The Earth's orbit is an ellipse; sometimes a little closer, sometimes a little farther away.
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