Sentence examples for about as massive from inspiring English sources

This companion star, known as Sirius B, is about as massive as the Sun, though much more condensed, and was the first white dwarf star to be discovered.

If each partner is about as massive as the sun, they collapse when they run out of hydrogen fuel and become white dwarfs--dense Earth-sized remnants of their cores.

Eventually that star, which now shines fiercely in ultraviolet wavelengths, will evolve to become a white dwarf, a dense star about as massive as our sun yet only slightly larger than Earth.

Yet a growing body of evidence indicates that the now-dormant beast, about as massive as 4 million suns, fueled a firestorm of activity just a few million years ago, including the sustained emission of some of the highest energy radiation in the universe.

However, some fish have relatively large brains, most notably mormyrids and sharks, which have brains about as massive relative to body weight as birds and marsupials.

The star V 391 Pegasi is about 4,500 light years from Earth and is about half as massive as the Sun, burning helium into carbon.

About twice as massive as the Sun, the star is estimated to be 50 million to 400 million years old.

Sirius A is about twice as massive as the Sun and has an absolute visual magnitude of 1.42.

Around 2 million years old, the young star is about twice as massive as the sun, though it is still slowly growing.

The star is orange, about two-thirds as massive and about an eighth as luminous as our Sun.

Although there is no direct evidence for the existence of stars more than about 50 times as massive as the Sun, there is no obvious reason why much more massive objects should not exist.