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0 pointssph1y ago0 comments

It also blows my mind that the Sun accounts for 99.86% of the entire Solar System’s mass.

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Makes sense. You have a lot of gaseous outer planets, then a star who's compression needs to be so great that fusion can happen in it. That compression is going to drive up the density of the star.

saalweachter1y ago

"If Jupiter were a little bit bigger, we'd have a binary star system!"

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butlike1y ago

Makes sense. You have a lot of gaseous outer planets, then a star who's compression needs to be so great that fusion can happen in it. That compression is going to drive up the density of the star.

saalweachter1y ago

"If Jupiter were a little bit bigger, we'd have a binary star system!"

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