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What is the minimum size for the Sun?

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up vote 6 down vote favorite How small could our Sun be and still "burn" with nuclear fusion and emit the same spectrum of light and other radiation as the real Sun does? Edit: The goal is to have a small sun inside a huge vessel, such as an O'Neill cylinder. hard-science stars astrophysics share | improve this question edited Nov 21 at 16:15 asked Nov 20 at 20:15 user57423 448 1 10 ...