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Red dwarfs have to counter less gravity pressure and can be fully convective - they can burn for trillions of years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_dwarf htt
by throwaway5752 6y ago
Red dwarfs have to counter less gravity pressure and can be fully convective - they can burn for trillions of years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_dwarf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_dwarf
- formerly_proven 6y agoThe absolute magnitude scale is hilarious: logarithmic and inverted. A value lower by 5 means it's 100 times brighter.
- bonzini 6y agoThe magnitude (absolute or apparent) actually started as an ordinal number: in Italian we still say sometimes first magnitude instead of magnitude 1. Of course that doesn't work too well for the Sun's magnitude of -26.
- marcosdumay 6y agoSo, that graph on the GP's link has a total scale of 10^14 times between the smallest and largest point. What is roughly the difference between the energy of electrical and nuclear phenomena.