WTF Fun Fact – Sun Loss

The sun loses about 6 million tons of mass every second due to nuclear fusion and the solar wind. Despite constantly losing large sums of mass, it has only lost roughly 0.05% of its original mass over the last 4.5 billion years.

Source: https://slate.com/technology/2014/07/solar-wind-versus-fusion-how-does-the-sun-lose-mass.html


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