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To: Helotes

Add to that, “Sun-like star”.

WTH else is a star? Or the sun.


15 posted on 11/05/2013 3:01:48 AM PST by Moltke (Sapere aude!)
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To: Moltke
Stars come in a variety of colors and sizes--red giants are vastly larger than the sun (some are so large that the earth's orbit would be inside the star if it were located where the sun is) and white dwarfs (like the companion of Sirius) are much smaller than the sun.

If this planet is orbiting at one-fortieth Mercury's distance from the sun, it would be less than a million miles from its star's surface.

27 posted on 11/05/2013 8:34:14 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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