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Understanding the Context

Besides the moon, the sun has a tidal component for the earths oceans, and when that crashes into continents the energy absorbed comes from the potential energy of the sun-earth system. I am not sure how this compares to the distance loss due to the mass and energy radiation of the sun you mentioned. Moon vs Sun size and distance 400 times - Physics Stack Exchange Refinery29: I Injected Myself For Tanned Skin & I Have So Many Regrets I Injected Myself For Tanned Skin & I Have So Many Regrets It's consensus that the very similar apparent sizes of the Moon and the Sun as seen from Earth is a coincidence (as already answered in this site). This provides us with almost exact total solar astronomy - How big a coincidence is the Sun and Moon having almost ...

Key Insights

This question is inspired by a similar one asked on Quora. Let's say a wizard magicked Jupiter into the Sun, with or without high velocity. What happens? The Quora question has two completely oppo...