SolomonW wrote:
> In article <mttc04l9p5ajsh1k04udst2bvh37h7vfeq@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> pethorne@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
>> You *might* find some remnants
>> that are ten or a 100 million years old.
>
> In interstellar terms 10 or 100 million years is nothing.
Not really. 100 million years is the total lifetime of a star only a
dozen or so times the mass of the Sun. For the most massive stars (a
hundred or so times the Sun's mass), total lifetime is only about ten
million years.
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