The limit is expressed as the ratio of the core mass to the total mass of the core and envelope.

Initially it is a slow process, increasing the core masses up to 30 Earth masses in a few million years.

The core mass itself pulsed with life.

This occurs for core masses in the range of 5-15 times the sun.

However, Chandrasekhar (1931) showed that the degeneracy pressure is inadequate to resist collapse if the core mass exceeds 1.4,.

Its nucleus alone - the core mass of unbroken clouds - is the size of South Carolina.

When they congregate into a core mass, they connect their individual neural strings to form immense living supercomputers.

These core masses are capable of astonishing theoretical calculations.

What fifteen Vulcans could barely comprehend individually will almost certainly yield to their combined intelligence, linked together as it is in the alien core mass.

Obtain a better estimate of Jupiter's core mass, which will also help distinguish among prevailing theories linking the gas giant's formation to the solar system.