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Luminosity of sun:
3.8 1026 J/s
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H burned rate:
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H atoms available:
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Lifetime:
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In
reality not all the atoms we start with are H, and only those
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near
the center are available for fusion.
The structure of the sun
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will
change when about 10% of the above total have been used,
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so
after about 10 billion years.
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