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Tag: <span>erg</span>

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The equivalent of 1 erg

A very common unit of energy in Astronomy is erg. There are stellar sources that emit up to 1040 erg/s (or even more for galaxies). But, how could we understand “how much” erg is? An interesting and funny example is given in the Wikipedia [1]: “An erg is approximately the …