It can take anywhere from a few thousand to a few million years for one photon to escape. https://t.co/vsUXJGXwhe
A Photon's Million-Year Journey From the Center of the Sun
It's a well-known fact that the light we see from stars has taken hundreds, even thousands, of years to reach us. The photons made in the centers of these distant stars have traveled across enormous expanses of space and time in order to enter our retinas. But what about the light made in our own Sun? What […]