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It's more than reciprocal. Fusion rate and luminosity go up enormously with stellar mass, like m^4 or even higher, so the lifetime goes more like 1/m^4. Siriu
by T-hawk 6y ago
It's more than reciprocal. Fusion rate and luminosity go up enormously with stellar mass, like m^4 or even higher, so the lifetime goes more like 1/m^4.
Sirius for example is 2x the mass of the sun, but 25x as luminous, therefore 2/25 the lifetime until it runs out of hydrogen.