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To: DungeonMaster

I thought that our sun was bigger than about 80% of the other stars.

20 posted on 04/30/2015 4:31:59 PM PDT by Rockpile

To: Rockpile

I thought that our sun was bigger than about 80% of the other stars.

No it's a yellow dwarf. I guess it's just a bit smaller than average.

Betelgeuse in the left shoulder of Orion is 1000 times the diameter of the Sun and would almost engulf Jupiter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betelgeuse

25 posted on 05/01/2015 4:47:00 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (God is very intollerant, why shouldn't I be?)

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