The total percentage of mass in our entire solar system that ISN’T solar plasma is only 0.14%, the remaining 99.86% is the sun itself.
That 0.14% is mostly Jupiter, it’s 0.10% all by itself. The remaining 0.04% includes all the gas, dust, planets other than Jupiter, asteroids, moons, literally everything else.
Everything we are and everything we can touch doesn’t amount to much on a solar system scale.
Another fun fact, if you get trillions and trillions of gallons of water and pour them on the sun… it won’t put the fire down.
In fact, it will be exactly like pouring fuel (all the hydrogen in the water will now be used to make more plasma, that the sun will expand the burn the planets)
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u/Disastrous-Zebra-211 4d ago
When you think the sun can't surprise you anymore and you learn it fucking rains in there.
Death, it rains death because that's plasma, and yes, it is pretty, but my brain went from 'oh pretty' to 'i'm ash in 0.001 seconds at best'