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Old 01-April-2008, 05:10 PM
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The other way round-- we multiply the 170,000 by two orders of magnitude to get the time the Sun can maintain its radiation flux. So it's about 10 million years, IIRC. In other words, the fusion in the core of the Sun could end forever right now, and we'd hardly notice a thing for many thousands of years. It wouldn't be an obviously different object for millions of years.
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