Minutes----------------- not years--- Light minutes-
8.5 light minutes = 0.000016 light years = 93,000,000 miles. It's a long way. At the speed of a jet airplane, it would take 20 years. But of course we all go all the way around the Sun once a year!
About 10^-4.8 0.000016 light years Light takes 10^2.7 s to reach the earth, and there are 10^7.5 seconds in a year. Divide. EDIT: Fixed typos.
None. The sun is 8.317 light minutes 'light minutes' away, or about 149,600,000 km or 93,000,000 miles. This is an average distance, since the earth orbits the sun in an ellipse. At perihelion the distance is 147,098,074 km, and at aphelion it is 152,097,701 km.
