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submitted 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) by ekZepp@lemmy.world to c/science_memes@mander.xyz
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[–] Nougat@fedia.io 4 points 18 hours ago

... they definitely don't move slowly through the sun.

They kind of do. While the photons inside the Sun move at a very high speed, they can take up to about 170,000 years to get from the middle of the Sun to the outside, because they change directions a lot on the way.