It took scientists 300 years, experiments and calculations, to determine the amazing rate at which light travels in a vacuum: 186,282 miles per second.<br>Please fill in the translation in this text box<br>2<br><br>Light travels slightly more slowly in the air than in a vacuum.<br>Please fill in the translation in this text box<br>3<br><br>In fact, in some extreme experiments, light can be slowed down to something like a crawl, even making it look like it's retreating.<br>Please fill in the translation in this text box<br>4<br><br>But in the scale range of our daily lives, light travels so fast that we feel that everything around us is happening in real time.<br>Please fill in the translation in this text box<br>5<br><br>Looking up at the night sky, the illusion began to hold.<br>Please fill in the translation in this text box<br>6 Floyd Stecker, of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, explains: "It takes time for light to get to Earth from there, so' The farther away there, the sooner the light leaves there, so all the objects we see at some point are the past. "
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