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📅 NSB Round Robin 2018🎓 HS🔄 Round 1#️⃣ Question 19🌟 Bonus✍️ Short Answer

The approximate surface temperature of our Sun is 5800 kelvins, while the approximate surface temperature of the blue giant star Rigel is 11,600 kelvins. According to these data and the Stefan-Boltzmann law, how many times as much radiative power per unit of surface area does Rigel generate as the Sun?

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