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Sunlight you see is 8 minutes old 

Light needs about 8 minutes and 20 seconds to cross 150 million kilometres, so you always see the Sun as it was, never as it is.

Space

Sunlight takes eight minutes to reach Earth

The sunlight warming your face left the Sun about eight minutes and twenty seconds earlier.

Space

The Sun holds nearly all solar system mass

About 99.8 percent of the solar system's mass is concentrated in the Sun.