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http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011500/a011537/
This is so confusing. If light travels at the speed of light, c, then how can it take 40,000 year to get out from the sun?
Photons undergo fusion? hahaha. I never knew that
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center said:The light that illuminates our planet is made deep inside the sun and takes some 40,000 years to travel through the sun’s layers. Particles of light form from atoms undergoing nuclear fusion in the sun’s innermost layer known as the core. The light then flows through the sun’s interior for millennia, slowly bubbling up like water in a boiling pot. It eventually bursts past the sun’s surface, called the photosphere, and rises into the solar atmosphere. Once in the atmosphere—made up of the chromosphere and corona—the light streams out through the solar system.
This is so confusing. If light travels at the speed of light, c, then how can it take 40,000 year to get out from the sun?
Photons undergo fusion? hahaha. I never knew that
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