As Kathryn says, it takes light 8 minutes to travel the 93 million miles from the Sun to Earth. Nothing can move faster than light so it would take us (or any object) longer than that. In August this year NASA launched a spacecraft called the Parker Solar Probe which is going to travel to within 4 million miles of the Sun. On Oct 29th it got to within 26.55 million miles of the Sun, breaking the previous record. To travel to the Sun in a straight line would take a huge amount of energy, so instead it’s flying in elipses (squished circles) which take it closer and closer to the Sun each orbit. You can learn more about it here: http://parkersolarprobe.jhuapl.edu/The-Mission/index.php
Well, if (somehow) someone was to build a bridge from here to the sun, and (somehow) you managed to walk at an average pace without stopping… It would take you over 3000 YEARS!!!
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Kathryn’s and Anne’s answers are probably more useful.
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is actually going to get pretty close to the Sun, in relative terms. 4 million miles is a small fraction of the 93 million miles between the us and the Sun.
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Nathan commented on :
You couldn’t actually get to the sun. you would burn up long before you reached it.
Agnes commented on :
@Nathan You’re right, I should probably have also added “and (somehow) you didn’t die for one of the many many reasons that you would” ^_^
Anne commented on :
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is actually going to get pretty close to the Sun, in relative terms. 4 million miles is a small fraction of the 93 million miles between the us and the Sun.