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How fast does light travel?

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Light travels at a speed of about 186,000 miles per second [300,000 kilometers per second]. Light from the sun takes about 8 minutes to go 93 million miles [149 million kilometers] to earth. Does this seem slow? Well, if you could drive to the sun at 60 mph [100 kph], it would take you 177 years to get there!

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