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Pretty small really

Makes you feel very very small..

Cool

That is awesome. What the hell is all the planets after the sun........sirius, arcturus all the way to antares! are they even planets or just another sun?

Some crazy stuff.

Dee-vub wrote:That is awesome. What the hell is all the planets after the sun........sirius, arcturus all the way to antares! are they even planets or just another sun?

Some crazy stuff.

I think they're just very very very big stars. 'Tis interesting stuff really.

I also found out that Uranus is bigger than the Earth, no pun intended

That last one is HUGE.

It does make the earth seem really insignificant though

So how come we cant see any of those massive ones? You'd think that considering the difference in size beween them and the sun that we would be able to see them. I'm guessing they are in a Galaxy Far, Far Away

Theres bound to be life elsewhere, but lets not get into that...too philisophical and it hurts my head to think about it lol!

Biddle wrote:So how come we cant see any of those massive ones? You'd think that considering the difference in size beween them and the sun that we would be able to see them. I'm guessing they are in a Galaxy Far, Far Away

You can see most of them with a telescope, and most of them are hundreds of light years away. I think Antares is meant to be the brightest of them all, so it should be fairly distinguishable.

/geek mode off

thats cool!! nice find there MB

Ollie_R wrote:

Biddle wrote:So how come we cant see any of those massive ones? You'd think that considering the difference in size beween them and the sun that we would be able to see them. I'm guessing they are in a Galaxy Far, Far Away

You can see most of them with a telescope, and most of them are hundreds of light years away. I think Antares is meant to be the brightest of them all, so it should be fairly distinguishable.

/geek mode off

Haha Il tone it down

Ollie_R wrote:

Biddle wrote:So how come we cant see any of those massive ones? You'd think that considering the difference in size beween them and the sun that we would be able to see them. I'm guessing they are in a Galaxy Far, Far Away

You can see most of them with a telescope, and most of them are hundreds of light years away. I think Antares is meant to be the brightest of them all, so it should be fairly distinguishable.

/geek mode off

Yeh i was speakin to my old man and he was saying you can easily see them, but they are so far away that they are hard to distinguish from any other stars that look the same but are in fact probably alot smaller, but alot closer. Its unimaginable to think of the size of these stars, i can guarentee there'll be another star 10 times bigger than Antares and then another star 10 times bigger than that. It's never ending to be honest and you'd have to have a pretty small mind to say there isnt another form of life somewhere out there. whether its just bacteria etc or not.

I love stuff like that. I guess on a similar scale, if that big fat star was the size of the whole of earth, then earth would be like a single grain of sand.