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How long light takes
Light travel time in seconds, minutes, hours and years from the Sun to each planet, and from Earth to the Moon, the Sun and Proxima Centauri.
- Version
- 1.0.0
- Added
- 23 October 2026
- Films
- Not used in a film yet
Parameters
No parameters.
Use it in a film
film.js
table('light-travel-times')Sources
- NASA NSSDCA Planetary Fact Sheet (Metric) (public domain, US government work)
- NASA NSSDCA Moon Fact Sheet (public domain, US government work)
- NIST CODATA speed of light in vacuum (exact) (public domain, US government work)
- NASA/JPL astrodynamic parameters: c, au, light time (public domain, US government work)
- NASA Exoplanet Archive, Proxima Cen distance (NASA data; acknowledgement requested)
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