That's a bit of a misunderstanding! The light from the sun that reaches Earth takes about 8 minutes and 20 seconds to travel.

The misconception might come from the fact that light from distant galaxies takes millions, even billions of years to reach us. This is because those galaxies are incredibly far away, and light travels at a finite speed.

However, the sun is our closest star, and its light doesn't take nearly as long to reach us.