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1 posted on 09/24/2020 11:31:45 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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Although it’s difficult to pin down the exact traits of any given star, based on what we know, the largest star is UY Scuti, which is some 1,700 times as wide as the Sun.

2 posted on 09/24/2020 11:32:18 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Barbra Streisand is one of ‘em.


4 posted on 09/24/2020 11:34:03 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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I find it astounding that there are scientists...astronomers...who who,despite being in a position to appreciate the grandeur of the universe,refuse to entertain the possibility that there's a God.
7 posted on 09/24/2020 11:40:59 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Thanks To Biden Voters Oregon Is Now A Battleground State!)
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How about this one. A star older than the universe. If you believe in big bang.

https://www.space.com/20112-oldest-known-star-universe.html


8 posted on 09/24/2020 11:44:39 AM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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Kurzgesagt just did a very good video that explains all this in a very digestible way.

Even an object the size of our sun is beyond our comprehension. The scales described here are way beyond that. We are less than dust.

The Largest Star in the Universe – Size Comparison

9 posted on 09/24/2020 11:45:24 AM PDT by Joe Brower ("Might we not live in a nobler dream than this?" -- John Ruskin)
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In the Scrotum constellation, all of the star systems have two balls of fire.


13 posted on 09/24/2020 11:56:04 AM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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THX


19 posted on 09/24/2020 12:11:37 PM PDT by Red6
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“And in its sky was such a sun as no opium eater could ever have imagined in his wildest dreams. Too hot to be white, it was a searing ghost at the frontiers of the ultraviolet, burning its planets with radiations which would be instantly lethal to all earthly forms of life. For millions of kilometers around extended great veils of gas and dust, fluorescing in countless colors as the blasts of ultraviolet tore through them. It was a star against which Earth’s pale sun would have been as feeble as a glowworm at noon.”

― Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood's End


25 posted on 09/24/2020 1:32:07 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrats' John Dean])
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BTTT


34 posted on 09/28/2020 4:51:27 PM PDT by hattend
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