In the nineteenth century astronomers believed that the sun


In the nineteenth century, astronomers believed that the Sun was slowly shrinking and that the compression of its internal gas was the source of its heat. Given that the Sun's luminosity is approximately 3.8x10^ (33) gm, what is wrong with this idea? You may suppose constant density.

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