Posted on Friday, 20th January 2012 by Brooke Richmond
Astronomers will tell you that the Sun is a typical star but just how true is this statement
Pick up almost any book or go to any website about the Sun and it will almost certainly tell you that the Sun is a “typical” or “average” star. But walk into your back yard and look up the stars you see in, say, StarList 2000 and the Sun seems anything but typical. In fact, it seems to be a bit of an oddity. So how does the Sun compare to other stars?
Let’s consider the Sun’s mass, for example, which is estimated to be about 333,000 times the mass of the Earth. If the Sun is typical or average then surely we should see a fair number of stars in the night sky that have similar masses? But this is
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