Light takes hundreds of thousands of years to get out of the sun

You know, of course, that in order to allow light from the sun reaching the earth takes about 8 minutes. It's incredibly fast compared to how long it takes for the light to come inside the Sun and reach its outer edge.

The fact that photons, particles of light, do not go directly to the nucleus of the Sun outwards. Coming out of the nucleus, they fall into the zone of radiative transfer, where the energy transfer is carried out by absorption and re-emission of photons. Moreover, the absorption of radiation of photons does not depend on whether, in what direction they were going, because of this many times pereizluchёnnomu photon need plenty of time to escape, finally out. This journey may take millions of years. On average, this period is 170 000 years.

via factroom.ru