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[–] [email protected] 10 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Trying to wrap my head around how incromprehensively large even just our sun is always makes me feel dizzy.

We are not even a pale blue dot to most of the universe, and when we disappear nothing will know or remember us.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 21 hours 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 20 hours 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 19 hours 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