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And if I’m reading the details section correctly, while the outer pair of stars are actually older than sharks, it’s the bright star that you can actually see that’s younger than sharks.

This makes even less sense, how is the heavier thing in the middle younger than the things that orbit it?

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dwindling7373@feddit.it ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I may be wrong but a mass of inhert hydrogen has the same mass of a radiating one, so they could have been orbiting a mass of gas a long time before the “newer” one ignited.

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- Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
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ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
The bigger the star, the brighter it burns

Also it dies sooner. So any given big star is more likely to be young

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Aeao@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I can explain that but I have to use the only thing available to illustrate.

So imagine my left testicle here formed before this penis in the middle… And yes it is technically a penis despite the small size, and this testicle-

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