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  • Claude Monet's interpretation of a sunrise. (Wikimedia Commons)
    Sunrise, Sunset
    Danit Brown
    Why does the sunset take more time than the sunrise? It takes much less time for the sun to light up the sky at dawn than it does for all the light to disappear after the sun sets at dusk.