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Old 01-03-2010, 04:17 PM
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As Frank said, 1 Solar Mass = The mass of our sun. Whether or not that means that the star in your image is 200 times the size of our sun is a different question all together. It has 200 times more mass. but with mass comes gravity, with gravity comes compression... it may only be 10 times the physical size of our sun, but be 200 times the mass. A neutron star the size of our sun would have about 10,000 solar masses. Its a matter of density.

Nice image - Looks a little overcooked to me, but I'm viewing on my laptop screen as my desktop computer decided to take a dump last week
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