[FireCat]

(if this topic gets delete, PM me the reason please)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VY_Canis_Majoris
I'm just amazed by its hipergiganticfreakingbigass size >.<
Who doesn't want to bother clicking the link, heres an image, in comparison with the sun >.>


So, is the sun big? LOL, fuck no. >.>

[Danny]

What the fuck is that thing o.o

I get why they call it Majoris.

[StrangeLove]

How did they took the picture?

[bhaveshnande]

http://www.numbersleuth.org/universe/
Scale the Universe.

[FireCat]

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Originally Posted by bhaveshnande http://www.numbersleuth.org/universe/ Scale the Universe.

I've seen that lots of times.
@ the guy who asked how the took a pic:
Nasa can take pics that are milion light years from now, just combine for example 6 mega humble escopes, and you have a massive telescope...

[Danny]

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[Mauzen]

The universe is wide. And maybe its just part of something more giant.

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Originally Posted by MrSurfur1 How did they took the picture?

No need to "take a picture". The suns size and look can be calculated by its emitted ray, and the effects of its gravity to other objects. Thats how modern astronomy works, theres almost no more looking through a telescope and drawing the nightsky.

[Silentfood]

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Originally Posted by Mauzen The universe is wide. And maybe its just part of something more giant. No need to "take a picture". The suns size and look can be calculated by its emitted ray, and the effects of its gravity to other objects. Thats how modern astronomy works, theres almost no more looking through a telescope and drawing the nightsky.

If there's anything I learnt from my physics qualifications, is that you can use parallax to measure a stars size by using is colour (temperature), and it's brightness. Don't remember the equation though, which is a shame >.<

[FireCat]

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Originally Posted by Silentfood If there's anything I learnt from my physics qualifications, is that you can use parallax to measure a stars size by using is colour (temperature), and it's brightness. Don't remember the equation though, which is a shame >.<

Of course! Each star has its own "state". And that state releases some... atoms, and the first state of a star is to release hydrogen, and then it stays for millions of years releasing hydrogen, then it goes up to a higher state, releasing... helium, and thats how all the other stars are created. By a big compound of all of these atoms that join up, create a star, then that newly created star, enters a state of releasing hydrogen and so on...

[Silentfood]

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Originally Posted by FireCat Of course! Each star has its own "state". And that state releases some... atoms, and the first state of a star is to release hydrogen, and then it stays for millions of years releasing hydrogen, then it goes up to a higher state, releasing... helium, and thats how all the other stars are created. By a big compound of all of these atoms that join up, create a star, then that newly created star, enters a state of releasing hydrogen and so on...

Huzzah! Astrology at its finest.
The only thing that really stuck in my brain were supernovas. Those things are huge, and they form new stars.