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Mass Interior to Radius<br />

Mass contained in the core<br />

is about 36%.<br />

So, a star the size of our Sun, in purely<br />

radiative equilibrium (no convection) has<br />

36% of its mass contained in only 1.3% of its<br />

volume!<br />

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