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To: MtnClimber

Although its 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
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To: MtnClimber
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?)
To: MtnClimber
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!)
To: MtnClimber
8 posted on
09/24/2020 11:44:39 AM PDT by
Seruzawa
(TANSTAAFL!)
To: MtnClimber
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)
To: MtnClimber
In the Scrotum constellation, all of the star systems have two balls of fire.
To: MtnClimber
19 posted on
09/24/2020 12:11:37 PM PDT by
Red6
To: MtnClimber
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 Earths 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])
To: MtnClimber
34 posted on
09/28/2020 4:51:27 PM PDT by
hattend
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