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It would be interesting to calculate how much these stars contribute to the mass deficit of the universe.
by Ringz 2y ago
It would be interesting to calculate how much these stars contribute to the mass deficit of the universe.
- Retric 2y agoNot just stars, it implies there’s a lot of planets, asteroids, etc tossed out there.
- recursive 2y agoI suspect in any solar system, the mass of the non-stars are a rounding error compared to the whole system's mass.
- Retric 2y agoI suspect the current contents of a solar system is a poor proxy for everything that’s been ejected from it. Pluto is 0.0006 light-years from the sun, there’s a great deal of space between stars we don’t know that much about. Further we dramatically underestimated the number of expo planets for decades. Quite reasonably we don’t put a lot of weight on stuff we can’t detect.
- SJC_Hacker 2y ago> I suspect in any solar system, the mass of the non-stars are a rounding error compared to the whole system's mass. A brown dwarf orbiting a red dwarf would beg to differ.
- recursive 2y agoIs the brown dwarf not considered a star? I don't know.
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- Retric 2y ago“A brown dwarf is an object which is made of the same stuff as stars, but does not have enough mass for hydrogen fusion (combining hydrogen atoms into helium atoms). Hydrogen fusion is what makes stars glow. Brown dwarfs are not massive enough to do this, so they are not stars. On the other hand, they are not regular giant planets, because they do glow.” https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_dwarf https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_dwarf While very young they generate heat from both deuterium fusion but that only lasts millions to tens of millions of years. Energy from radioactive decay and their slow contraction lasts for much longer.
- deprecative 2y agoThe nebulous space the Brown dwarf occupies in terms of classification is fascinating to say the least. I'm a passing not even hobbyist on the subject but that they glow but not like that is really interesting. When I think of the brown dwarf I am also reminded of the hypothesized black dwarf. This would be the stage after white dwarf. It's hypothesized because it takes longer for the white dwarf bodies to cool than exists presently in the history of the universe. It's only a handful of sentences and will largely repeat the previous paragraph but there's the wiki page for black dwarf. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_dwarf https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_dwarf Very interesting stuff all around. Space is so fucking cool, y'all.
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- raverbashing 2y agoWhich are both "low mass" compared to other stars out there It might even be possible to have this combination weigh less than our sun
- malfist 2y agoThe sun accounts for 99.9+% of the solar system mass if I recall correctly
- Retric 2y agoClose it’s ~99.85% excluding the ort cloud. However there’s a major bias towards smaller stars because they last longer though conversely they are harder to detect.
- martinpw 2y agoProbably not that much relatively. Specifically the Perseus cluster reported on here has a mass of around 10^15 solar masses in total. Of that ~10% is in the form of stars, 20% is intergalactic gas and the remainder is dark matter. The report here says 1.5 trillion of these stars in this cluster which is ~10^12 solar masses (assuming average star mass is similar to the sun's.) So the newly observed stars reported here are around 0.1% of the total cluster mass, or around 1% of the total mass of stars in the cluster. All very approximate of course.