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To: Norm Lenhart

Just that it’s not really close to being a star with only 11 Jupiter masses. But it is close to being a brown dwarf, which is a sort of transitional category between planet and star.


22 posted on 05/11/2015 2:21:34 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

I meant the actual fusion thing. What I am curious about is the timeframe.

I would assume the core being the highest pressure/temp is the starting point, but considering the sheer mass/size of a star, how fast does the entire ‘star’ become involved in the reaction? is it more a ‘slow burn’ or ‘blinding flash”?


24 posted on 05/11/2015 2:29:50 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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