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By far the most common type of star is the red dwarf star. These stars are between 7.5% and 50% of the mass of the Sun. About half the stars in the Milky Way are red dwarf stars. For example, Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Sun, has a mass of 12.3% of the Sun's mass, which comes to 2.4*10^29 kg.

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The theoretical minimum of a star, burning hydrogen through nuclear fusion, is around 0.08 solar masses. The most massive known star is a blue hypergiant called R136a1. It's around 265 times more massive than our sun.

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If a star is above the Chandrasekhar limit of about 1.4 solar masses, then the star cannot maintain its size due to the repulsive forces of the atomic nuclei; the star will collapse into a neutron star. If it is spinning (and most of them are) we might call it a "pulsar".

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Anything below about 75 or 80 Jupiter masses would be called a brown dwarf, which doesn't get hot enough for nuclear fusion, except that it may fuse deuterium. And anything below about 13 Jupiter masses can't fuse deuterium either, and would be considered a planet.

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A dying star sheds most of its mass during the red giant stage. Only a fraction of the mass is left behind in the white dwarf.

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A white dwarf, because of it's structure can only form from a star that has a mass of between 0.6 and 1.4 Suns.

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This is known as the Chandrasekhar limit, it's around 1.4 solar masses or 2.8 × 10 to the power of 30 kg.

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Above that mass, the white dwarf's "degeneracy pressure" isn't strong enough against the strong gravity, and it will collapse into a neutron star.

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1032 Kg

Mass of sun is 2*1030 Kg

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0.1 to 300 solar masses

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How can stellar masses be determined by observing binary star systems?

Stellar masses can be determined by observing binary star-systems. The calculations of the orbits of the binary stars allow the masses of their component stars to be directly determined, which in turn allows other stellar parameters, such as radius and density, to be indirectly estimated.


If a star was 150 solar masses what would its lifetime be?

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What is the weight of star?

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