If a contracting protostar is eight times the radius of the Sun and has a temperature of only 2190 K, how luminous will it be relative to the Sun
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If a contracting protostar is eight times the radius of the Sun and has a temperature of only 2190 K, how luminous will it be relative to the Sun? (Hint: Use the luminosity-radius-temperature relation)
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