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Here's another fun fact for you: Basically, if you replaced the sun with a big LED, it would last about equally long assuming it outputs the same amount of light power. that's because the sun gives off most of its power as light power already, because the heat has no other way to escape except through black body radiation

this post was submitted on 24 Jan 2026
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