Right now, in the center of the Sun, there's a nuclear reaction converting hydrogen to helium, producing neutrinos, photons, & positrons. A neutrino from this reaction will pass through you just over eight minutes from now. The photons won't arrive for at least 100,000 years.
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Actually that initial photon never makes it out of the sun, what it does is it travels to the next atom which gets excited and emits *another * photon and so on until the cascade effect gets to the surface of the Sun and then Earth.
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Actually the interior of the Sun is a plasma so there are no atoms to be excited, just ions/nuclei, and maybe if you want to raise an objection (there is in fact a discussion that could be had about photon identity!) you should get the physics right first

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