Largest known star...oh my god...

cowsgoquack101 · Post by **cowsgoquack101** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 12:02 am

Now, to be lame I found this on Digg. But anywho, this is just effing scary man. I don't know if anyone knows this, but Earth is smaller than the "Red eye" on Jupiter, and Jupiter is about 90 times smaller than our sun. But now this star VY Canis Majoris is just extreme. "Roberta M. Humphreys (2006) estimates the 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."

"Now to make this less spammy, discuss!"

myuusmeow · Post by **myuusmeow** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 12:17 am

Holy guaca-f***le!
This REALLY puts it in perspective (Warning, 143kB)

Imagine that...someday God sneezes and accedently switches them, the solar system melts in nanoseconds.

Too bad it'll be a supernova in 1200 years. :p

@Below: Just used to a different forum, you can't even post a pic bigger than 640x480 or 30kB!

Edutainment · Post by **Edutainment** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 12:20 am

myuusmeow wrote:Holy guaca-f***le!
This REALLY puts it in perspective (Warning, 143kB)

Imagine that...someday God sneezes and accedently switches them, half the solar system melts in nanoseconds.

I didn't know 143kb warranted a warning

But ya, that's totally rad... in that "holy crap it can kill us all" sort of way.

According to this here Wikipedia article, all life in that part of the universe pretty much ends by 3200.

wallydawg · Post by **wallydawg** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 12:26 am

Outer Space is awesome

nightwheel · Post by **nightwheel** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 1:20 am

myuusmeow wrote:Holy guaca-f***le!
This REALLY puts it in perspective (Warning, 143kB)

Imagine that...someday God sneezes and accedently switches them, the solar system melts in nanoseconds.

Too bad it'll be a supernova in 1200 years. :p

OH GOD!!!!!! THATS FRICKIN SCARRY HOW SMALL THE SUN IS TO VY Canis Major. Oh my @#%^$& GOD!!!

cowsgoquack101 · Post by **cowsgoquack101** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 1:38 am

http://www.rense.com/general72/size.htm

It's another good size chart I guess. It doesn't have VY Canis Majoris though...

Metallica Man X · Post by **Metallica Man X** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 7:27 am

Yeah...kinda makes ya feel totally insignifficant, doesn't it?

Still tho, that's pretty durn big...and to think, that super star is still just a speck on the collosal scale that is this universe.

gamer2 · Post by **gamer2** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 8:43 am

Metallica Man X wrote:Yeah...kinda makes ya feel totally insignifficant, doesn't it?

can we have your liver then?

Ecksem Diem · Post by **Ecksem Diem** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 9:10 am

Pfft, screw the biggest star, the biggest galaxy is where it's at. Messier 77 FTW!

project_failure · Post by **project_failure** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 1:43 pm

Pfft, screw the biggest star, the biggest galaxy is where it's at. Messier 77 FTW!

Its all about the omniverse or better yet the Omnidimension !

Post by **benheck** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 1:53 pm

That's one helluva star.

-Ben

Metallica Man X · Post by **Metallica Man X** » Mon Jul 02, 2007 4:01 pm

gamer2 wrote:
Metallica Man X wrote:Yeah...kinda makes ya feel totally insignifficant, doesn't it?
can we have your liver then?

Nope. That liver is magical and can make entire galaxies dissapear....ever wonder what happened to mega C-29344-102-1.6?

Never heard of it? Well, that's why!

bmire1985 · Post by **bmire1985** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 1:08 am

cowsgoquack101 wrote:http://www.rense.com/general72/size.htm

It's another good size chart I guess. It doesn't have VY Canis Majoris though...

well VY Canis Majoris has radius that 2.6 to 3 times as much as Antares the biggest on that site lol

wallydawg · Post by **wallydawg** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 1:57 am

gamer2 wrote:
Metallica Man X wrote:Yeah...kinda makes ya feel totally insignifficant, doesn't it?
can we have your liver then?

I just got a new one, so you can have his haha. 8 months ago I'd have put up a helluva fight for it

nightwheel · Post by **nightwheel** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 2:12 am

benheck wrote:That's one helluva star.

-Ben

You said it better than I did.