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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My fav sun fact is that it burns 400 million tons of hydrogen each second, and will be doing that for billions of years. That's 400 million tons of the lightest possible element there is. Just absolutely insane how gigantic the mass of the sun is.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My fav is just that the sun is, all by itself, 99% of the total mass of our solar system. Most of the rest of that 1% is Jupiter.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

You're understating it a bit there - the sun is 99.86% of the mass of the solar system by itself. To the nearest whole percent, the solar system consists of 100% "the sun". To the nearest 0.1%, it's 99.9% the sun and 0.1% Jupiter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_mass