Isnt our sun huge?

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WRONG!!!

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Heh, that reminded me of Lex Luthor.

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Incredible... I believed stars 100 times the mass of our sun would explode, but I was wrong.

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erh lol

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Just goes to show how small we really are.

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Dang I feel tiny now.

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no, it goes to show how small our sun is. we weren’t on the chart at all!

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interesting, but why are those stars casting shadows?

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Because somebody screwed up in photoshop. lol

It’s just a size comparison from Pluto to one of the largest stars known to us.

Last edited 26 Jul 2007 05:45 am by Cid

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there is one star, the largest we have ever found, that is so huge it can warp galaxies.

It starts with an X, something like X13 blah...

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Vy Canis Majoris is the largest star known to man right now. It’s the one RTIYS posted up there.

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hmm... well i read something about a huge ass star they found....

Also, here is a awesome vid.



The first thing i thought was simply.. Dear God....

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The estimated radius of VY CMa is between 1800 and 2100 solar radii. If our sun were replaced with such a star, its surface could extend to the orbit of Saturn. If we take its radius to be that higher figure of 2100 solar radii, it would take more than 8 hours for light to travel around its circumference. If it were possible for a human to walk on the surface of Canis Majoris, at 3 miles an hour for 8 hours a day, it would take him or her 650,000 years to walk the entire circumference (compared with 2 years 11 months to complete the same task on the Earth).

And yah, I’ve seen that video.

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That is interesting but fuck cid how do you know all that

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Arcturus is the name of a kick-ass Death Metal band.

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All hail... the almighty... CALCULATOR!!!!!

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wikisearch more like

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Yee I mean what a mined of noleg. google king the cid All hail to the almighty king cid

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He got it from wikipedia. Thats also were I got that picture