The light from the sun takes 8 mins to reach us on earth, but if it blew up would it be quicker than 8 mins for us to see or would we see quicker than 8 mins?

Question

Google says it would take 170,000 million years and 8.5 minutes

In: Earth Science

Answer 1

Would we see the explosion before it hit? Woud we be stood outside looking at the explosion?