Space Week: The sun loses 4.7 million tonnes of mass as energy per second

Space Week: The sun loses 4.7 million tonnes of mass as energy per second

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
In fact of the day, day day, day, day, do.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Do do do do do do do do Well, we
got Belgium biscuit.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
Belgian biscuit made me very very celebrit the celebrite.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
It made me very salvey very I'm full of saliva. Good.
I like it better than a dry mouth. Well, it's
some space week here. At the fact of the day,
I've been loving so much more than calendar wet.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
This has been inspired as well as you a recent
trip that you've taken, a mysterious recent trip. And I
believe we will find out more about this next week.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
Okay, well, today the day is about this this stars.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
Okay. The stars are the stars.

Speaker 4 (00:59):
In honor of a full moon, the solstice and Matariki
coming up.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
He hadn't thought of any of those, but that is
a happy coincidence that I'm willing to say. Yeah, absolutely,
that's what I was thinking of when I was sent
this fact by Neve. Do you want to know how
many stars are estimated to exist? Neve Gayford, Neve gay Clark.

Speaker 4 (01:21):
What is.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Not the old prime minister's daughter.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
There are one the old prime minister, former former prime minister,
former prime Minister's daughter. There are one siptillion stars Siptilia
sept and that is one followed by twenty four zeros.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
And that's just stars.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
That's not planets, that's just the stars that planets go around.

Speaker 4 (01:46):
Here.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
I was trying to become a billionaire. Yeah, you need
to become a sep.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
Is so much. Well, our our closest star is, of course,
the Sun. And Stanford University did some recent calculations. This
says every second our Sun loses four point seven million
tons of mass as energy.

Speaker 4 (02:08):
We're getting small itself out, but it's a long while.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
Often does it lose that every second four point seven
million to lose.

Speaker 4 (02:18):
Shred and keto. Then it's head classes intimated, it faster,
fast things everything. It's not pointing, it's not taking on
any mass because it's not hungry.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
Because of how long, how long we got Well, put
it this way, we'll have destroyed this earth well before
it think.

Speaker 4 (02:37):
Because I was like, we're gonna have to shunt the
Earth towards a new star.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Nah, if we all just went like that, well, two
massive rockets on each side.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
Yeah, be so loud, Yeah it would be, but you
know air plus yep. Yeah, easy to go to sleep too,
because the sun's gone out, soide's dark, so cold.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
It'll be noisy and dark. Lifelong sleep. I think of that.
It will be. It will be the long sleep. So
today's fact of the days.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
Our sun is losing four point seven million tons of
mass as energy every second