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TIL that a photon of light can travel the 150 million kilometres from the Sun to the Earth, and in that same time, a gamma ray in the Sun's core will travel only about 13 centimetres. It can take 100,000 years from the core of the Sun to get to the surface — where it bursts out at speed of light.

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