• Question: if we can see the light rays on earth what is the furthest you could see light rays from the sun , and how many minutes or hours would it take to reach there as it takes 8 minutes for rays to reach earth?

    Asked by alfie to Sammie on 12 Mar 2018.
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      Sammie Buzzard answered on 12 Mar 2018:


      The further you get from the sun the dimmer the light gets so the limit is how far you can go before your eyes don’t detect light any more. We can see light from starts 4000 light years away so even if we could travel at the speed of light that’s 35000000 hours!

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