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Old 22nd October 2010, 10:47 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Star Size Comparisons

Just to put life on our planet in comparison - watch this. Fab visualisation. (heard about it on the radio today, along with suggestions for a website for 'catsthatlooklikehitler.com' which I haven't checked out!)


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Re: Star Size Comparisons

Apparently there are 5,458 "kitlers", SF!


(And thanks for posting that video. )
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Old 22nd October 2010, 11:18 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Apparently there are 5,458 "kitlers", SF!
Scarily, you've now made me check the site out! And there are!

And, I have to say, at least one of them does!!!


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(And thanks for posting that video. )
Am now checking out the showcase from the Hubble telescope:

HubbleSite - Showcase: Entire Collection
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Old 23rd October 2010, 03:24 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Re: Star Size Comparisons

Those hyper-giants are scary, burning through their fuel in millennia instead of aeons...

What's really weird is that low-end brown-dwarf stars (not shown) may be smaller than high-end gas giants-- There's a bobble in the mass/diameter graph...
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