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sph
1y ago
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It also blows my mind that the Sun accounts for 99.86% of the entire Solar System’s mass.
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butlike
1y ago
Makes sense. You have a lot of gaseous outer planets, then a star who's compression needs to be so great that fusion can happen in it. That compression is going to drive up the density of the star.
saalweachter
1y ago
"If Jupiter were a little bit bigger, we'd have a binary star system!"
<The Sun, massing 1000x what Jupiter does.>
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