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    The Sun Is Expected to Spend About 5 Billion More
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The Sun Is Expected to Spend About 5 Billion More

Question 47

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The Sun is expected to spend about 5 billion more years on the main sequence.If its luminosity increased suddenly to four times its usual value,how much time would it remain on the main sequence?

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