What fraction of its mass does a 25-solar-mass main-sequence star eject into space during its lifetime?
A) almost all of it, greater than 80%
B) only a small fraction, about 1/100
C) between 1/4 and ½
D) only its outer atmosphere, less than 1 part in 104
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