The light radiated from the Sun's surface reaches Earth in about 8 minutes, but the energy of that light was released by fusion in the solar core about

A) a hundred years ago.
B) a thousand years ago.
C) tens of thousands of years ago.
D) hundreds of thousands of years ago.
E) a million years ago.


D

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