the distance of the earth from the moon is 2,40,000 miles or

24 x 104 miles and that from the sun is 93,000,000or93x106miles.

The moon is more than one light

second and the sun 8 light minutes away, i.e. light

traveling at 1,86,000 miles per second takes just over a

second to reach from the moon and about 8 minutes from the sun.