Wow...

[Small_Fryz]

So anyone able to find comparisements that continue the trend?

Whats bigger than Antares?
Are you able to provide a graphical comparisment picture like my link?

 

[DuckRacer]

And then you think everything that's happened on this Earth, the wars, the discoveries, the inventions, everything, and it happened on one small speck.


...Woah.

 

[Small_Fryz]

Here we go.

Using the fact that VV Cephei is 1140 times the diametre of the sun i calculated to scale how big it is compared to Antares. Scaled it to pixels and drew a scale comparisment.

BTW here is the measurements in pixels of the rough diametre of the 2 stars compared to each other.
Antares: 66.5 VV celphi: 793.44

 

[Omnis]

Comets are frozen anyway.

How the hell do comets stay frozen in a temperature that hot?

I think someone's discovered intergalactic Reynolds Wrap.

 

[GT4_Rule]

Holy crap!

We are nothing but a tiny speck in the vast galaxy...

Does the Famipedia know what's the largest star discovered?

 

[no1rc3ur]

we are so insignificant...

 

[daan]

Holy crap!

We are nothing but a tiny speck in the vast galaxy...

Does the Famipedia know what's the largest star discovered?

It's been mentioned twice...

But it's a baby compared to VV Cephei which is about 1200 times the size of the Sun (and 315,000 times brighter). Put VV Cephei where the sun is and the surface would be a little beyond the orbit of Saturn!

Here we go.

Using the fact that VV Cephei is 1140 times the diametre of the sun i calculated to scale how big it is compared to Antares. Scaled it to pixels and drew a scale comparisment.

BTW here is the measurements in pixels of the rough diametre of the 2 stars compared to each other.
Antares: 66.5 VV celphi: 793.44

 

[GT4_Rule]

Oh, alright. Oooops.

Always read over the whole thead....

What would the life span of that star be? Since it's 1140 times bigger than the sun the life span of the star must be less than 100,000 years - am I right?

 

[Small_Fryz]

Holy crap!

We are nothing but a tiny speck in the vast galaxy...

Does the Famipedia know what's the largest star discovered?

To put it another way.

If earth was 10 pixels in diameter. VV Cephi would be roughly 1,242,600 pixels in diameter. Too big to make.

Famine whats the biggest solid planet/object/thingo that we know of? as in we could walk on it. Like earth or mars for instance. (ignoring gravity and tempreture issues)

 

[Blake]

Perspective is awesome.

 

[Famine]

To put it another way.

If earth was 10 pixels in diameter. VV Cephi would be roughly 1,242,600 pixels in diameter. Too big to make.

Famine whats the biggest solid planet/object/thingo that we know of? as in we could walk on it. Like earth or mars for instance. (ignoring gravity and tempreture issues)

The Earth.

There's a couple of extrasolar planets (exoplanets) which may be rocky but not yet confirmed... Errr... there's one around a Gliese (can't remember which one) which is about half the size of Uranus or about 8 times bigger than Earth.

 

[daan]

It's interesting how Ganymede and Titan (moons of Jupiter and Saturn respectively) are bigger than Mercury, and our own moon is bigger than Pluto!

 

[Famine]

Pluto is dismal.

It's probably made out of ice. It's probably not big enough that it's bent into a spheroid by its own gravity. It has a moon which, if Pluto is classed as a planet (which it shouldn't be), forms the largest moon-to-planet-size ratio in the Solar System.

It's such a hanger-on. I blame Tombaugh, who was so eager to find Planet X that he definitely did - without checking if it was a planet or not first.

 

[Taurine]

It's sad to think that the full extent of our universe might not be discovered for another 10, 100, 1000 generations or perhaps even never..

 

[GT Pro]

These days, or more accurately should I say; the past year or so there have been more than 30 claims of new planets, around 2-3+ of which range from twice the size of pluto to half the size of the Earth. Although, as you can guess a vast majority being extrasolar and far, far beyond the Kuiper Belt.
What annoys and deters me away from Planetary exploration is the classification of Planet and Satellite grouping.

As exploration continues into the 21st century and is further analyzed, Pluto and many more on one hand are becoming increasingly questionable.

 

[sutton.a]

Awesome simliarity. I loved it

 

[Speedy Samurai]

The Total Perspective Vortex also makes me feel insignificant.

 

[Slick Rick]

http://www.rense.com/general72/size.htm

That is just crazy

I always love comparisments like this when talking about how big space or its contents is.

wow indeed

 

[GM]

Wow, thats an amazing comparison.

I did'nt know what all those stars even were until I had read this thread, I've learnt something new

 

[3-Wheel Drive]

This also helps put the universe in perspective:
The Universe Within

 

[HACKr]

Is anyone thinking about the string theory?

 

[GT Pro]

String Theory: 'a model of fundamental physics whose building blocks are one-dimensional extended objects (strings) rather than the zero-dimensional points (particles) that are the basis of the Standard Model of particle physics'

Well to me, It's very hard to understand...

 

[Keichi Tsuchiya]

What's that?

 

[Gen.]

Alternate theory to the universe.

 

[Famine]

Alternate theory to the universe.

Not anymore it isn't.

The five competing string theories have been unified into M-theory - and all it took was an 11th dimension.

 

[Small_Fryz]

Not anymore it isn't.

The five competing string theories have been unified into M-theory - and all it took was an 11th dimension.

English?

 

[Omnis]

You know why they called it M theory, right?

↓​

 

[Famine]

English?

The model of the universe, as was, used 10 dimensions. The physicists who like this kind of things came up with string theory as an explanation of the formation and existence of the universe - but they came up with 5 different ones.

The 5 string theories were competing and mutually exclusive. If any one of them was right, none of the other 4 could be. But they all seemed to be right and the arguments lasted for years.

Then someone (can't remember who) decided to revisit an old theory of an 11-dimensional universe. With an 11th dimension, all of the string theories could be resolved into one - so they were all right all along, but actually all wrong because they were based in a 10D universe.

10D string theory has been superceded by 11D M-theory, or Brane theory.

 

[daan]

English?

 

[Small_Fryz]

So whats a 11D M-Theory or Brane theory?

BTW thanks for your info so far famine, very interesting read 👍