When they say “part of the sun breaks free”, they insinuates something far, far more dramatic than it is. Parts of the sun is breaking free all the time, and get ejected as solar wind. In fact the sun loses about a million ton’s worth of material each second.
That sounds like a lot, but it isn’t. Over the life of the sun up to now, the sun may have lost a total of just a few earth mass of material. But the sun has 300,000 earth mass’s worth of material to lose.
That sounds like a lot, but it isn’t. Over the life of the sun up to now, the sun may have lost a total of just a few earth mass of material. But the sun has 300,000 earth mass’s worth of material to lose.
