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A photon born in the core of the Sun takes tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of years to reach the surface. Trapped in ultradense plasma, it is absorbed and re-emitted in a random walk. Once it escapes, it crosses 150 million km to Earth in just eight minutes.
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