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Yellow dwarf star 8.2 light minutes from Earth and approximate center of the solar system

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English: * Yellow dwarf star 8.2 light minutes from Earth
  • 99.86% of the mass in the Solar System (71% hydrogen, 27% helium, 1% oxygen, 1% metals)
  • After Kepler 11145123 (star), the second most perfect sphere observed in nature (the equatorial diameter is only 10 km different from the polar)
  • Releases the equivalent energy of 2 billion Tsar Bombs in one second (385 septillion watts)
  • Heating up, will evaporate all liquid water on Earth within a billion years
  • 240 million years to complete one orbit around the Milky Way (20 galactic years old)
  • 4.5 billion Earth years old, 5 billion years to become a red giant and then, white dwarf the size of Earth
This image is part of the project "The Celestial Zoo": https://www.facebook.com/thecelestialzoo/
Date 9 August 2020
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Author Pablo Carlos Budassi

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