• Largest star (so far) discovered, breaks records (no shit)
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i wonder if we really will have to re-ignite ours some day...
[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] I think it's bigger than that. [editline]03:51PM[/editline] A lot bigger than that.
[QUOTE=sphynx;23546232]i wonder if we really will have to re-ignite ours some day...[/QUOTE] Impossible. It'll grow to a massive size becoming a red giant and it will engulf and swallow mercury, venus, and earth. It's like getting ash and trying to set ash on fire. We'd be better just moving to a new solar system, and hopefully by that time we will have expanded over a fair few solar systems.
[QUOTE=Odellus;23546378]I think it's bigger than that. [editline]03:51PM[/editline] A lot bigger than that.[/QUOTE] You underestimate how big the orbit of the gas giants are. However, it actually is [I]slightly[/I] bigger than the orbit of Saturn, so you're sort of right.
[QUOTE=Kendra;23546547]You underestimate how big the orbit of the gas giants are. However, it actually is [I]slightly[/I] bigger than the orbit of Saturn, so you're sort of right.[/QUOTE] Are there any pictures of this? I'd like to see them.
What? The orbits? Sure, there's lots of those, but none where you can see the scale. Or do you mean the star in the orbit? I sincerely doubt it, since there's no way to exactly find out how big it is, so it would just be guesswork, and just a waste of time then, but I'm not sure.
VY Canis Majoris is still bigger.. Good.
[QUOTE=ejonkou;23547706]VY Canis Majoris is still bigger.. Good.[/QUOTE] Only in diameter, the new star still outweighs it.
[QUOTE=Odellus;23546378]I think it's bigger than that. [editline]03:51PM[/editline] A lot bigger than that.[/QUOTE] No, it really isn't. It says that the star is 2100 times as large as the Sun right? So I multiplied the radius of the Sun by 2100, then compared that value to the orbital distance of each of the planets, starting with Mercury.
Betelgeuse is still my favorite star.
And just think, they will only get larger.
[QUOTE=Hoffa1337;23516714]Wouldn't wanna be in the vicinity of that beast when it goes supernova.[/QUOTE] It's still a "baby", it will lose mass as it ages. When it dies it won't be as heavy, methinks. [editline]02:47AM[/editline] [QUOTE=jantz;23552373]And just think, they will only get larger.[/QUOTE] No, they won't. [editline]02:50AM[/editline] ITT, people talk about stuff they don't know about
[QUOTE=Hoffa1337;23516714]Wouldn't wanna be in the vicinity of that beast when it goes supernova.[/QUOTE] It might have already exploded irl. I'm of couse assuming that it isn't near by.
[QUOTE=Gunhound;23555171]It might have already exploded irl. I'm of couse assuming that it isn't near by.[/QUOTE] If it exploded we'd all be de-
[QUOTE=imadaman;23525471]Better? :smile:[/QUOTE] Thanks :D
[QUOTE=jantz;23552373]And just think, they will only get larger.[/QUOTE] No they won't because there isn't enough free matter in nebulas to allow for super massive stars, and the stars normally migrate out of the nebulae
[QUOTE=BaconDioxide;23562902]Thanks :D[/QUOTE] -snip- Idiotism about not being able to change the title :3:. Also <3 Homestuck & Problem Sleuth
did the star go to weight watchers :v:
Gentlemen, when this thing will go übernova we are going to have another big bang.
We are so tiny man, thinking about me gives me goosebumps :ohdear:
There is something worse than thinking we are small. Imagine there is another planet, just like ours, orbiting around this giant sun. The planet would be fuckin' huge too, to orbit around the sun, wouldn't it ? Well, now imagine that there are living things on this planet, and that their size is proportional to the size of their planet, which is also proportional to the size of their sun. Imagine the size of these living things. Imagine we had someday to meet them. Now we would really feel small.
So guys I never understood exactly what the million times brighter than the sun thing would do to a human being? Can anyone explain? I always thought that meant the star could blind you no matter what you do
harness their energy :science:
[QUOTE=Deweze;23613677]So guys I never understood exactly what the million times brighter than the sun thing would do to a human being? Can anyone explain? I always thought that meant the star could blind you no matter what you do[/QUOTE] You'd be bathed in deadly amounts of ionising radiation (UV and probably X-rays) and the planet would be heated up so much that everything would die. I think.
^Yeah but that's the temperature of the star, what would the brightness do
[QUOTE=Deweze;23622206]^Yeah but that's the temperature of the star, what would the brightness do[/QUOTE] It'd just blind you. You'd be blind. Like a blind person. Brightness is really just a measure of EM radiation anyway. It all boils down to the same thing, huge amounts of energy.
[QUOTE=z0nk3d;23587044]There is something worse than thinking we are small. Imagine there is another planet, just like ours, orbiting around this giant sun.[/quote] okay [quote]The planet would be fuckin' huge too, to orbit around the sun, wouldn't it ?[/quote] No. This is not how physics works. A peanut can orbit that star and it can orbit our sun too. [quote]Well, now imagine that there are living things on this planet, and that their size is proportional to the size of their planet, which is also proportional to the size of their sun.[/quote] No, read up on the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square-cube_law]Square-Cube law.[/url] [quote]If an animal were scaled up by a considerable amount, its muscular strength would be severely reduced since the cross section of its muscles would increase by the square of the scaling factor while their mass would increase by the cube of the scaling factor. As a result of this, cardiovascular functions would be severely limited. In the case of flying animals, their wing loading would be increased if they were scaled up, and they would therefore have to fly faster to gain the same amount of lift. Air resistance per unit mass is also higher for smaller animals, which is why a small animal like an ant cannot die by falling from any height. Because of this, the giant animals seen in horror movies are unrealistic, as their sheer size would force them to collapse. However, it's no coincidence that the largest animals in existence today are giant aquatic animals, because the buoyancy of water negates to some extent the effects of gravity. Therefore, sea creatures can grow to very large sizes without the same musculoskeletal structures that would be required of similarly sized land creatures.[/quote] Basically, if you take a human and increase its size by a factor of 2100, it would be 4,410,000 times as strong but would be 9,261,000,000 times as heavy. [quote]Imagine the size of these living things. Imagine we had someday to meet them. Now we would really feel small.[/QUOTE] nope
I think tiny stars are just as cool. It's like... damn I could have a summer home on it it's so small.
Hot damn.
Build a Dyson-Sphere around it. :science:
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