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What does MSun mean?

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msun stands for solar mass

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An object forms with a mass of 0.017 Msun. Is it a star or planet?

The difference between a star and a planet with such a mass is kind of fuzzy. I would say it is a brown dwarf - a very small and dim star. The smallest known star is currently OGLE-TR-122b with a mass of 0.09 Msun. THey think the lower limit for a star to have fusion occur is about 0.08 Msun. So, an object with 0.017 Msun would be a planet.


Is 1.2 Msun white dwarf smaller than 3.0 Msun?

No. A white dwarf cannot exist above a mass of amount 1.4M sun. Above that limit a stellar remnant will become a much smaller and denser object called a white dwarf. A mass of 3.0 M sun is about the upper limit for a neutron star. Above that it is likely to collapse to forma black hole.


Why are there no stars with masses less than 0.08 M?

There are no stars smaller than 0.08 Msun because any object smaller than that is not able to become hot enough to burn hydrogen in their cores. The brightest star in the Earth's sky is called Sirius.


What is the lifetime for this star in years There is a star elsewhere that has 10 times the mass of the Sun but a luminosity which is 100 thousand times that of the Sun?

If you look at the Spectral classes of stars, you will see that this star is a medium sized Blue-white star(3-18 MSun, 95-52000 LSun, Spectral class B). The average main sequence lifespan of this type of star is, according to the table, is 11-400 million years.


If Earth is converted to Black hole what will be it's size?

If it could, and it couldn't - it would be about the size of a marble of 0.35" radius.Earth couldn't become a black hole because it has too little mass even though, theoretically, micro black holes could exist. [See related link] The smallest known black hole has 3.8 solar masses. Earth is a tiny, tiny fraction of that mass.But if there were an Earth-mass black hole, theoretically it would have the 0.35" radius, according to two different formulas.Cornell University Astronomers give the formula R = (3km) x (M / Msun), where R is the Schwarzschild radius (radius of edge of black hole beyond which nothing returns, ever); M= mass of Earth (or whatever); Msun = mass of the sun. [See related link]Another formula for calculating the R above uses instead Newton's gravitational constant (G), the mass of the object (m), and the speed of light (c). [See related link]


What is the density of a white dwarf which contains 1.3 Msun using the volume of the Earth?

A white dwarf has the density of the Sun compacted into the size of the Earth. A white dwarf has a density of about 1 x 109 kg/m3 whereas a neutron star has a density of 8.4 x 1016kg/m3 Water for comparison is 1,000 kg/m3


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