Multiple Choice
The Pistol in Sagittarius is one of the most massive known stars. But it has lost much of its original 200 solar masses. How long is the entire mass-loss process estimated to take?
A) an explosion lasting a few seconds
B) hundreds of millions of years
C) a few million years
D) a billion years
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