Fact
Sunlight is tens of thousands of years old before it leaves the Sun
Eight minutes to reach you. Far longer to reach the surface.
Energy produced by fusion in the core is absorbed and re-emitted countless times on its way out, taking a random walk through dense plasma. Estimates for the journey from core to surface range from around ten thousand to over a hundred thousand years. The final 150 million kilometres to Earth takes eight minutes and twenty seconds.