What would be the mass of a main-sequence star that has a luminosity 1000 times greater than that of the Sun? (See Figure 10-15,Comins,Discovering the Essential Universe,6th ed.)
A) 10⁵ solar masses
B) 5 solar masses
C) 0.1 solar mass
D) 1000 solar masses
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