It’s “common knowledge”—and the scare quotes should be a warning—that the sun is an average star. But it’s not, and in fact it’s not even close: The sun is in the top 90th percentile of stars by mass.
Three thousand five hundred and sixty-tree carats, a measurement of weight and in a certain way a measurement of the size of gemstones, translates to 1.57 pounds, which is just one of the several ...