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Fusion in the Sun’s core releases neutrinos and high-energy photons together: a neutrino can reach the surface in about two seconds, while the photons’ energy may take roughly 170,000 years to escape after countless scatterings, absorptions and re-emissio - Space Daily

Solar neutrinos escape from the core in seconds, while radiant energy diffuses through dense plasma for roughly 170,000 years before it can leave as sunlight.

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Fusion in the Sun’s core releases neutrinos and high-energy photons together: a neutrino can reach the surface in about two seconds, while the photons’ energy may take roughly 170,000 years to escape after countless scatterings, absorptions and re-emissio - Space Daily

The sunlight arriving at Earth this moment left the Sun’s visible surface a little over eight minutes ago. The energy carried by it may have begun moving out of the solar core roughly 170,000 years e… [+9909 chars]

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Fusion in the Sun’s core releases neutrinos and high-energy photons together: a neutrino can reach the surface in about two seconds, while the photons’ energy may take roughly 170,000 years to escape after countless scatterings, absorptions and re-emissio - Space Daily

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