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Sure, but now I'm left wondering what the size of the body doing fusion is. If most of the star is glorified glowing atmosphere, I want to know the mass and rad
by margalabargala 2mo ago
Sure, but now I'm left wondering what the size of the body doing fusion is. If most of the star is glorified glowing atmosphere, I want to know the mass and radius of the fusing bits.
- peri-cl 2mo agoThere's dedicated Wikipedia articles responsive to this, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_core https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_core
- idiotsecant 2mo agoDepends on the class of the star. Our sun? About 1/4 radius and in is fusion reaction. But it gets weird in other stars. In red giants the fusion zone is a very small shell around a dead core. Maybe something like earths orbit in radius, but very very thin.