A blue supergiant star in relation to the size of our solar system

NASA ^

[LibWhacker]

Feeling small? I am.

[Pontiac]

Holy Crap

[yarddog]

Goodness that is big.

Why is it blue?

[Sapwolf]

Kinda ....big.

[babygene]

Nothing on the link except the same pic...

[Spirochete]

Goodness that is big.

Why is it blue?

It's false color. It looks white (with a bluish tint) to the human eye, like a stroke of lightning or welding arc.

[AppyPappy]

“Why is it blue?”

Probably a woman.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

:sings:
It’s a great big universe
and we’re all really puny
we’re just tiny little specks
about the size of Mickey Rooney...

[Chode]

the mind boggles...

[Slyfox]

So, where is this blue giant in relation to us?

[txnativegop]

Its living fast and dying young and I hope no where near us.

this thing has black hole written all over it.

[left that other site]

Ping! ;-)

[SamAdams76]

If I bought a Nissan Pathfinder and had an unlimited supply of oil, gasoline, tires, and other consumable parts, I wonder how long it would take me to drive that Pathfinder around that star at the equator.

[wardaddy]

Wow ...big kitty.

Think of the pounds per sq inch gravity

I read once that a teaspoon of matter in a black hole weighs like a supertanker

I imagine a star this big would be heavy dude for like way out

I mean our modest star pulls out to the Oort cloud which is I think over a quarter distance to Proxima Centaur I

Great post

I love this stuff...thanks Nick Sand..lol

[Yardstick]

Yeah it’s big, but can it think on its feet?

[Bullish]

In other words it’s the size of Obama’s ego?

[Skooz]

whoa

[JimSEA]

It’ll produce a whole lot of heavy elements!! That thing is incredible.

[cripplecreek]

VY Canis Majoris (Red Hypergiant) is larger.

[txnativegop]

just hope it is many thousands of light-years from us. don’t want to any where near that thing when it gives up the ghost.