On: NASA study reveals Venus crust surprise

[saalweachter]

Crazy factoid one: The Earth masses more than everything else between the Sun and Jupiter combined.

Crazy factoid two: Venus is 80% of the Earth's mass.

[sph → saalweachter]

It also blows my mind that the Sun accounts for 99.86% of the entire Solar System’s mass.

[butlike → sph]

Makes sense. You have a lot of gaseous outer planets, then a star who's compression needs to be so great that fusion can happen in it. That compression is going to drive up the density of the star.

[saalweachter → sph]

"If Jupiter were a little bit bigger, we'd have a binary star system!"

<The Sun, massing 1000x what Jupiter does.>