The sun has a luminosity of $3.86 \times 10^{26}$ watts and the distance of the Earth from the sun is $1.50 \times 10^{11}$ m. We can use these numbers in the formula for flux, which is $F = \frac{L}{4\pi d^2}$, where $F$ is the flux, $L$ is the luminosity, and
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