Largest star (so far) discovered, breaks records (no shit)
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Post 21 (former post 21) was fucking shit up
So it's a Star Forge?
[img]http://edandmari.com/starwars/locations/StarForge.jpg[/img]
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[QUOTE=Rasrap Smurf;23517077]I saw this on the news and they showed a size comparison. It didn't look nearly as big as some of the stars shown in the "the size of our universe" videos and gifs you see where it shows a bunch of stars lined up next to each other.[/QUOTE]
yeah they showed that on sky news
massive
Space is scary.
[QUOTE=Hoffa1337;23516714]Wouldn't wanna be in the vicinity of that beast when it goes supernova.[/QUOTE]
Gonna create a helluva black hole, too.
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[QUOTE=Yahnich;23520887]The article mentions that they're so massive that they don't even leave any remnants behind besides a shit ton of iron.[/QUOTE]
Oh, okay then. Nevermind that earlier remark.
[QUOTE=BaconDioxide;23516865]OP, you might wanna change your tl;dr, it's 300 times as massive (meaning heavy, though that's not technically right either), not 300 times as large (volume).[/QUOTE]
Better? :smile:
My mind is blown, I've been taught ever since I started studying astronomy that stars simply cannot get this massive without imploding in on themselves as gravity overpowers the nuclear forces keeping it in balance.
[QUOTE=Vexont;23525610]My mind is blown, I've been taught ever since I started studying astronomy that stars simply cannot get this massive without imploding in on themselves as gravity overpowers the nuclear forces keeping it in balance.[/QUOTE]
Your avatar, my reaction.
I wonder what will happen when it goes Super Nova. Big Bang Theory...
[quote=Nexus651]I wonder what will happen when it goes Super Nova. Big Bang Theory...[/quote]
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[QUOTE=Nexus651;23526035]I wonder what will happen when it goes Super Nova. Big Bang Theory...[/QUOTE]
Rated dumb for not understanding what you're talking about.
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Unintentional page king :v:
[QUOTE=imadaman;23516573][url=http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/eso-massive-stars-discovered-100721.html]Source[/url]
[b]tl;dr for the non-astronomy people:[/b] Multiple huge Stars were found, one of them is a star that has c. 300 times the solar mass of Earth's Sun.[/QUOTE]
I love space stuff... Imagine how much power you could generate if you put solar panels in front of that star...
This topic remains me of those gifs that show how tiny the earth is compared to the Sun, how tiny the Sun is compared to the largest star, and how tiny the largest star is compared to Gabe Newell.
VY Canis Majoris is cooler.
does that makes our sun, the smallest star in the universe?
[QUOTE=BCell;23533796]does that makes our sun, the smallest star in the universe?[/QUOTE]
No. There are many, many smaller stars than our sun in the galaxy, but nobody pays them any mind. I do, though. We can't forget about our closest neighbor, Proxima Centauri.
[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;23520869]Post 21 (former post 21) was fucking shit up[/QUOTE]Thanks, it was consistently crashing Chrome for me :/
Title is misleading. It's not the largest star; it's the most massive (there's a difference.). The largest star we have discovered currently is VY Canis Majoris.
[QUOTE=radioactive;23519699]Yes.
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It's Dainbramage Studios post. He's put the .svg in image format.[/QUOTE]
what? no I haven't ...
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nevermind, johnnymo1 deleted it
[QUOTE=Kendra;23519822]It's nowhere near the largest.
It's the most massive, not the biggest, there's a difference.
VY Canis Majoris is the largest, 2100 times bigger than the Sun.
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/Vy-canis-majoris.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
i... uhh
:psyduck:
thats HUGE!
[QUOTE=kenji;23537969]i... uhh
:psyduck:
thats HUGE![/QUOTE]
It's so big that if it were placed in the centre of our solar system, it would easily engulf Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars and Jupiter. That's right; it's diameter is greater than the diameter of the orbits of the first 5 planets.
*exploding pysduck here*
I meen. wow. thats just so amazingly big to try and get your head around.
[QUOTE=Richard Simmons;23516841]Maybe its the cause for all the global warming :downs:[/QUOTE]
It farted in our direction.
[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;23538672]It's so big that if it were placed in the centre of our solar system, it would easily engulf Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars and Jupiter. That's right; it's diameter is greater than the diameter of the orbits of the first 5 planets.[/QUOTE]
And when it goes supernova it's gonna release 10 solar masses of Iron.
Possible Magnetar in the making? :psylon:
[QUOTE=Kendra;23519822]It's nowhere near the largest.
It's the most massive, not the biggest, there's a difference.
VY Canis Majoris is the largest, 2100 times bigger than the Sun.
[IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/Vy-canis-majoris.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
Dear god, thank you. I couldn't think of the name of that if my life depended on it. I was about to say, I knew this one was way bigger.
How fast do you think this'll burn out?
They just keep finding more and more even larger stuff.
Nothing can surprise me anymore.
Space is kewl.
[QUOTE=The Spocker;23516663]Those suckers are going to make some mean black holes.[/QUOTE]
Actually
[quote]With the discovery of stars weighing between 150 and 300 solar masses, the study's findings raise the prospect of the existence of exceptionally bright, "pair instability supernovae" that blow themselves apart. [B]These exploding stars fail to leave any remnants, and disperse up to ten solar masses of iron into their surroundings.[/B] A few candidates for such explosions have been proposed in recent years.
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They explode with such intensity that even the core disperses.
Holy shit that's big!
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