... the surface and atmosphere of the Sun, it can also observe any object in the sky within a few degrees of our closest star ... Or were they? One thing SOHO studies are huge eruptions from the Sun called "Coronal Mass Ejections". ...
... This wind is only a very tiny fraction of the Sun's mass, but that mass is lost forever from the Sun. ... s the Sun's mass that controls how much gravity we feel from it, and since the Sun is losing mass, its gravity gets weaker too ...
... Comets don't lose mass, they gain it . Comets are huge, not dinky . ... That may sound like a long way, but Jupiter is a really massive planet. ... heat the core to 15 million Celsius, and produce the vast energy of our nearest star ...
... I think he may be right; it would take a larger mass to actually make it through. ... Why not colonize it? It's only a few million kilometers away! At least go to some star system in our own Galaxy! Nope. ...