Originally posted by dj_alfi
I love the fact that they've named the biggest known star Bigg Dawg.
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Good call.
BeatsAndBeyond
Eta Carinae :cool:
PivotTechno
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Originally posted by igottaknow
an azn man once said size doesn't matter :mad:
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Originally posted by igottaknow
Einstein used these pictures to help formulate his theory of relativity.
igottaknow
look I'm just saying let's not blow things out of proportion
Tasty Onions
The sun's radius is 0.04649 AU (1 AU is the average distance between earth and sun). VY Canis Majoris ("Bigg Dawg") has a radius about 2,000 times that of the sun. In AU, then, CM's radius is:
2000 * 0.004649 AU = 9.298 AU
That's just about Saturn's distance from the sun.
So if VY Canis Majoris were where our sun is, it would have swallowed up the first five or six planets of our solar system.
srussell0018
Won't our sun eventually do that anyways once it becomes a red giant, since it's too small to go supernova?
Acton
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Originally posted by srussell0018
Won't our sun eventually do that anyways once it becomes a red giant, since it's too small to go supernova?
It will 'swallow' the Earth and quite possibly Mars, yes........ in about 5 billion years.
srussell0018
So eventually.....:p
LAdazeNYnights
BRIT IT ON, SUN.
srussell0018
A star going supernova is dependent on mass, not size right? So are red hypergiants just huge starts with a mass that's small enough for it to not implode on itself, or are they the ones that are going to go supernova at some point?
netroM
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Originally posted by srussell0018
A star going supernova is dependent on mass, not size right? So are red hypergiants just huge starts with a mass that's small enough for it to not implode on itself, or are they the ones that are going to go supernova at some point?
They're the ones that are going to go black holes at some point. Most likely they already have.
Acton
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Originally posted by srussell0018
A star going supernova is dependent on mass, not size right?
It's more dependant on the rate at which a star uses its fuel.
