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Taken on: 2008-04-17 06:00:06
Sunrise over Blarney a few days ago. There was a thin layer of cloud on the horizon that nicely blocked out much of the light of the sun allowing me to capture this early morning sun.
It's amazing to think that the light we see takes 8 minutes to travel the immense distance between the Sun and Earth. What's even more remarkable is the thousands of years a photon can spend zinging back and forth inside the Sun before emerging as heat and light.
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