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Old 04-15-2009, 05:34 AM   #1
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Pretty fucking mind blowing. I've been trying to quantify these stars in my mind, but I don't think it's possible.
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Wow! That's insane! I never knew there were that many galaxies out there. If that is common knowledge, I'm only 15 and have never studied astronomy so gimme a break haha :P

Hmm, in one picture VY Canis Majoris is the largest known star and in the picture below that, VV Cephai is the largest known star.
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Old 04-15-2009, 08:52 AM   #3
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Hmm, in one picture VY Canis Majoris is the largest known star and in the picture below that, VV Cephai is the largest known star.
That is odd, but I believe that they may be estimates. Wikipedia says that the VY Canis Majoris is ~1,800-2,100 suns in diameter, while the VV Cephei is 1600-1900. So it's sort of a toss-up because the low VY Canis Majoris is beat out by the high VV Cephei. It's sort of irrelevant, but I think they're in somewhat of a tie.

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Hmm, in one picture VY Canis Majoris is the largest known star and in the picture below that, VV Cephai is the largest known star.
VV Cephai is a binary star system, meaning that is actually two stars orbiting one another.

Edit: The image depicting VV Cephai A as the largest known star is probably just outdated.

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VY Canis Majoris is estimated to be larger than VV Cephai A (the hypergiant in that binary system), and therefore is probably the largest star in our galaxy. However, there are stars outside of our galaxy which might be bigger than both of these, as you can see in the list above (WOH G64).

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strangely enough i was talking about this exact thing with my dad roughly an hour ago.
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Wow, that's insane! I love this kind of stuff
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I wasnt even high man.
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Assuming the upper size limit of 2100 solar radii, light would take more than 8 hours to travel around the star's circumference, as opposed to 14.5 seconds for the sun.
Wow! Can you imagine taking 8 years to travel around that, and thats even at the speed of light. Imagine trying to circle it at current speeds capable.

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It would take over 7,000,000,000,000,000 (7 Quadrillion) earths to fill VY Canis Majoris.
Thats mindblowing how big that sob is. It be pretty tight to be able to see it close up in a space ship, You'd prob have to be thousands of miles away just to be able to see the whole thing and not just a small part of it out a window. (If that makes sense?)
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Wow! Can you imagine taking 8 years to travel around that, and thats even at the speed of light. Imagine trying to circle it at current speeds capable.

Thats mindblowing how big that sob is. It be pretty tight to be able to see it close up in a space ship, You'd prob have to be thousands of miles away just to be able to see the whole thing and not just a small part of it out a window. (If that makes sense?)
You guys are saying imagine how big CY Canis Majoris is? Remember you're comparing it the size of the earth, imagine how FUCKING gigantic it is compared to you.
Someone should get the stats of how many humans could go around the earth!!
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