• JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 month ago

    Trying to wrap my head around how incromprehensively large even just our sun is always makes me feel dizzy.

    We are not even a pale blue dot to most of the universe, and when we disappear nothing will know or remember us.

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      1 month ago

      My fav sun fact is that it burns 400 million tons of hydrogen each second, and will be doing that for billions of years. That’s 400 million tons of the lightest possible element there is. Just absolutely insane how gigantic the mass of the sun is.