Biggest stars in the universe.

[Swede]

Pretty cool video,it may have been posted before.


http://www.wimp.com/biggeststars/

[onehandle]

1. Boy. I am a (very) amateur astronomy buff, but I had no idea that stars that large had been found.

Not counting Jay Leno's ego, of course.

[jgraz]

2. Yeah, it's been posted before... and I watch it every time.

Very cool video :D

[Uben]

3. So, remember......

...when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life, somewhere out in space,
Cuz it's a bugger down here on Earth!

[Pyrzqxgl]

4. If this is so and God made all of it, then how big is God.

[Speck Tater]

5. Have you ever played Everquest, Unreal, or World of Warcraft?

You can walk for miles and miles inside the game. You can spend hours exploring those worlds and not even begin to see all there is to see.

Yet all those hundreds and thousands of square miles of terrain fit inside your computer. How is that possible? Is the inside of your computer thousands of square miles big?

You can dream of looking up at the moon, yet the moon is 250,000 miles away. How can 250,000 miles of space fit inside your brain? Is your brain a quarter of a million miles wide?

God is probably about the size of a walnut. Or maybe as big as a shoebox. But seriously, the question "How big is God" is really meaningless, since God is not IN His creation, and is not bounded by the dimensionality of His creation. In other words, the idea that God has "size" is a classic category error, like saying "This rock is happy", or "This thought is rectangular". "Size" is a word that applies to physical creation, and God is not part of physical creation so the word "size" is meaningless in that context.

Yet another reason why us mere humans can't even begin to really wrap our minds around the concept of God as He truly must be.

[Nihil]

10. I know your reply was getting OT for this forum ...

... but would just like to thank you for a lovely analogy!

:toast:

(Especially being an Unreal & Riven fan :hi: )

[pansypoo53219]

6. sorta puts tiger wood's penis in perspective.

now will the gnews?

[RobertSeattle]

7. We are all the remains of exploded stars

Jesus didn't die for you - A star did.

[krispos42]

8. Here's an animated gif

We is tiny!

[Orrex]

9. It's hard to be the most important species in the universe when we're on such a tiny speck.

[Dogmudgeon]

11. The Biggest Stars: The A-List

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_known_stars">List of the largest known stars at Wikipedia

When I was a kid (in the 1960s), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epsilon_Aurigae">Epsilon Aurigae held the title for being the largest star, a big, cool, M5+ star. These days, it's under renewed scrutiny for being an F0 giant with an orbiting dust cloud!

Incidentally, Betelgeuse has been shrinking (~15% since 1990), and may be in a pre-supernova collapse -- in which case, an explosion is likely within a few decades (though not guaranteed). When it does explode, it will be at least as bright as a quarter moon.

--d!

[Dogmudgeon]

12. This just in ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=228x61433">Yearlong Star Eclipse May Help Solve Space Mystery

--d!