Light travels at 183,000 miles a second in space. It can circle the world 4 times in a second, and takes 8 minutes to reach the sun. (Thats LONG: 96m miles) If you think thats long, check this:
To reach the nearest star (apart from the sun): Proxima Centauri, (from sun) it takes light 4.25 years traveling at 183,000 miles a second. Thats 4.25 light years. Thats no shortcut. What you think?
2007-01-24 08:50:32 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Actually light travels at 186,282.3959 miles per second.
2007-01-24 08:57:31 · answer #1 · answered by shrabikhababi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You think thats amazing?
The Hubble Space has taken pictures of cosmic objects located over 13 billion light-years away! This is amazing because the edge of the universe is believed to be 13.9 billion light-years away.
2007-01-24 17:19:19 · answer #2 · answered by Belru Tytor 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think your numbers are off. The speed of light is 186,282.397 miles per second and the circumference of the earth is 24902 miles so light can circles the earth 7.48 times per second.
2007-01-24 16:57:17 · answer #3 · answered by E 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just think about this then... whenever I look at the Andromeda Galaxy in my telescope, the photons hitting my retina have been travelling for a couple million years just to be seen by me. Ain't that special?
2007-01-24 16:57:21 · answer #4 · answered by Arkalius 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
186,282 miles per second, or just a hair under 300,000 km/sec.
Consider that we observe objects that are over fifteen billion light years away...
2007-01-24 16:57:37 · answer #5 · answered by John T 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
wow thats fast
2007-01-24 17:27:11 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well.eh,sort of,it is amazing though!
2007-01-25 08:28:18 · answer #7 · answered by Billy Butthead 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YEs your right .
2007-01-24 20:09:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋