If the intrinsically faintest stars in Earth's sky have absolute magnitudes of +17, how does their total energy output compare with that of the Sun, whose absolute magnitude is +4.8?
A) about 12.2 times lower
B) about 1012 or 1,000,000,000,000, times lower
C) about 7600 times lower
D) about 76,000 times lower
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