Shrinking Sun

Hi, Frodnum! Welcome!CME's are lhe least of the Sun's weight-loss worries. Five million metric tons of matter get converted to the energy that keeps us warm every second in the center of the Sun. Extrapolate that back 4.6 billion years, and you get 7.2 X 10^26 kg of expended mass. That's a bit over a thousand times the mass of our Earth.But it's about 0.04% of the current mass of the Sun. Not worth getting too excited about just yet....