[C19fan]

WOW!! Antares is a red giant over 12 solar masses. The stars radius would extend a bit past Mars orbit.

[Red Badger]

Astronomers Release Most Detailed Image of a Star That’s Not the Sun

Betelgeuse is a huge red supergiant, so we can get pretty good images of the enormous star.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a27084/astronomers-release-detailed-image-star-besides-sun-betelgeuse/

[dangus]

TTIUWP

[Flick Lives]

Impressive we have telescopes capable of picking up such surface detail from a distance of 555 light years, even if Antares is the diameter of our inner Solar system! :-0

[plain talk]

Antares is 550 LY away!

[xp38]

Time to sing

Beyond Anares

The skies are green and glowing,
Where my heart is, where my heart is,
Where the scented lunar flower is blooming:
Somewhere, beyond the stars...
Beyond Antares.

I’ll be back, though it takes forever.
Forever is just a day.
Forever is just another journey.
Tomorrow a stop along the way.

Then let the years go fading,
Where my heart is, where my heart is,
Where my love eternally is waiting
Somewhere, beyond the stars...
Beyond Antares.

[Paal Gulli]

Meh ... old news. That was what it looked like when King Louis XII was born, but how's it looking today ?


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