33: Q&A - The Year in Space
The Supermassive Podcast
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Is the Moon Moving Away From the Sun Slowly?
The sun is losing mass all the time and i think sometimes we forget about this right. The sun by you know in its core nuclear fusion going on where you have four atoms of hydrogen turned into an atom of helium. That does mean it's losing a tiny bit of mass with every single sort of fusion reaction it it that happens like the number is 4.7 million tons a second a second okay that's a lotYeah it's insane it's an insane number right so i mean it sounds like a lot but in terms of the entire mass of the sun which is what 10 to 30 kilograms it's obviously a drop in the ocean but still it's enough to disrupt that uh should
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