Sentence examples for is not massive enough from inspiring English sources

The stars, which are relatively small celestial objects made up of closely packed neutrons, are thought to form after a supernova explodes if the star is not massive enough to create a black hole.

Charon is dark gray and rich in water ice, because it is not massive enough to hold onto the brighter methane and nitrogen ices seen on Pluto except, maybe, at Charon's pole.

Even taking into account the low metallicity of Gliese A (Cayrel de Strobel et al. 2001), and the corresponding speed-up of the evolutionary timescales, a (0.73M_{odot}) star is not massive enough to evolve of the MS within 10 Gyr.

The Sun is not massive enough to commence the fusion of heavier elements, and nuclear reactions in the core will dwindle.

A planet is an astronomical object orbiting a star or stellar remnant that is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity, is not massive enough to cause thermonuclear fusion, and has cleared its neighbouring region of planetesimals.

The difference is that the Sun isn't massive enough to ignite anything past helium in its core.

As explained here, even the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way isn't massive enough to greatly affect the orbits of the stars in our galaxy (except for those very close to the center).

Planetary nebulae are ejected from stars that are dying but are not massive enough to become supernovae namely, red giant stars.

Unlike major planets, these bodies are not massive enough to have swept up most smaller nearby bodies by gravitational attraction; they thus failed to grow larger.

Worse, while neutrinos are invisible enough to fit the bill, they are not massive enough, and therefore they don't clump together enough, so can only account for a tiny fraction of the total dark matter.

This is the informal name astronomers give to celestial bodies that were not massive enough for their thermonuclear furnaces to ignite; perhaps like the huge planet Jupiter, they just missed being self-illuminating stars.