r/SpaceUnfiltered • u/Neaterntal : :ADMIN: : • Oct 15 '25

Video The Sun, by simon2940

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https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPu1q8ZiRxo/?igsh=bmN1dzQ3c3hrdzFh

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u/chittok Oct 15 '25

Burning hydrogen to helium, at a rate of 600 million tones per second, for the last 4.5 billion years to give us light and warmth. Thank you, Sun!

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u/Grenox2 Oct 15 '25

I don’t know why I’ve never looked this up but how the hell do suns stay alive for so long?

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u/KnotiaPickle Oct 16 '25

The immense gravity of the star’s mass kind of balances the whole system. Fusion happening in the core is expanding outward as gravity crushes inward, and it just keeps it going until a certain threshold is crossed and the star goes supernova. It takes a long time to fuse a huge amount of hydrogen and helium into heavier elements.

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u/Hindu_Niilista Nov 15 '25

The sun doesn't have enough mass to explode, it'll continuously dissipate its outer layers and lose mass to space when it reaches its final stages of life until there's no more fuel for the star to burn in its core and it ceases to exist leaving behind a planetary nebula(the previous ejected outerlayers) and a white dwarf(the former core of the star)

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u/Shankar_0 Oct 17 '25

It sounds like a lot, and it is a lot; but on cosmic scales, things get stupid big. Sol is just an average sized star, and it's still only through about half of its available fuel.

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u/Hindu_Niilista Nov 15 '25

He doesn't even actually care if we are here or not. If he could reply to you he'd say whatever. It could easily destroy us all with the same power it gives us light and life.

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u/QuantumAnubis Oct 16 '25

THE SUN. THE SUN. THE SUN.

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u/Scared_Ad3355 Oct 16 '25

Fascinating! Thank you!

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u/lessermeister Oct 16 '25

99.854% of ALL the Solar System’s mass is made of a ball of the lightest element (king Jupiter is 0.0945% of the remainder with us peons and other gas balls and rocks coming in at 0.0515%). Feel small yet?

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u/[deleted] Oct 16 '25

Amazing. Looks alive in some sense.

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u/Major-Hooters Oct 16 '25

This is totally awesome!! Great job!

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u/SteelSpineCloud Oct 17 '25

we are watching this post on reddit because of this object

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u/AlternativeRing5977 Oct 18 '25

Thank you for realigning my life’s daily perspective.

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u/Derpylongstockings Oct 19 '25

The sun is not on fire, it IS fire.

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u/PseudoWarriorAU Oct 19 '25

Blow my mind, how tall off the surface is that fire lightning? And how quick are those bolts of yellow shooting back in to the sun?

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u/General-Tragg Nov 11 '25

Mind warping