What is the life expectancy of a 16-solar mass star?
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Answer:
10
million yearsExplanation:
Life expectancy of sun i.e. one solar mass is
10
10
years.
The relation between life expectancy
T
e
, in terms of life expectancy of sun and its mass
M
in terms of solar mass is
T
e
=
1
M
2.5
hence life expectancy of a
16
-solar mass star is
1
16
2.5
×
10
10
years
=
1
1024
×
10
10
years
=
0.0009766
×
10
10
years
=
9.766
×
10
6
years
or roughly
10
million years
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