Reply to post: The sun is losing mass?

Don't panic... but our fragile world is drifting away from the Sun

lee harvey osmond

The sun is losing mass?

All those particles streaming away? Yes.

And what about all the hydrogen being fused into helium and generating so much heat we can see it glowing 93 million miles away? E = mc^2 and all that? About four million tonnes per second as I once heard Sir Patrick Moore claim?

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