Thanks for the questions. I think sun and earth stuff is really cool. Sheila, Bass Player for The Rockets Email us a question . That is a great question. You say that light takes time to reach us.
Light travels at a certain speed through space.
It travels a little slower when it passes through glass. That's why a prism bends light. The light changes speed when it goes into the prism . So we know in space light travels at about 300,000 kilometers per second, which is about 186,000 miles per second. The sun's average distance from the earth is 93,000,000 miles.