Q. What is the distance of the Sun from the Earth?
Answer: 8 light minutes
Notes: The Sun is nearly 150 million km away from the Earth. Such large distances are expressed in another unit known as light year. Light year is the distance travelled by light in one year. Speed of light is about 300,000 km per second. Thus, the distance of the Sun from the Earth may be said to be about 8 light minutes.

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