Our sun is pretty big

when you compare it to the size of Earth.

Check out these beasts and you'll find out ours is a little scrawny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4iD-9GSW-0&feature=g-vrec&context=G244fe0aRVAAAAAAAAAw

Yup.

OLD!

Prefer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEheh1BH34Q&feature=relatedNicksonman

I used to watch How The Universe Works.

They stopped showing it.

[QUOTE="Nicksonman"]Prefer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEheh1BH34Q&feature=relatedthemajormayor

[QUOTE="themajormayor"][QUOTE="Nicksonman"]Prefer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEheh1BH34Q&feature=relatedNicksonman

[QUOTE="Nicksonman"]Prefer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEheh1BH34Q&feature=relatedthemajormayor

We're so insignificant as a planet and as a species, how can we collectively be so arrogant to boot lol?

We're so insignificant as a planet and as a species, how can we collectively be so arrogant to boot lol?

raynimrod

I love the topic title.

sounds so relaxed, like,

And yeah. Makes me feel little.

There's a sun a billion times bigger than our sun?!.. wow!!!Dogswithguns

I have no doubt there are millions or even billions of stars much bigger than that too. That's just one we've actually discovered lol.

There's a sun a billion times bigger than our sun?!.. wow!!!Dogswithguns

I should clarify; anything above ~200 solar masses either blows itself apart, or undergoes collapse.

Our top story today: The Sun, larger than Earth. Stay tuned...

[QUOTE="raynimrod"]

We're so insignificant as a planet and as a species, how can we collectively be so arrogant to boot lol?

PS2_ROCKS

You should watch this. Video

Makes Earth look like an ant.

Prefer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEheh1BH34Q&feature=relatedNicksonman

I love that video, thank you... keep forgetting to add it to my favorites... the music is so damn haunting

[QUOTE="Nicksonman"]Prefer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEheh1BH34Q&feature=relatedAtlanticRock

I love that video, thank you... keep forgetting to add it to my favorites... the music is so damn haunting

Thought this was a common known thing.

[QUOTE="Nicksonman"]Prefer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEheh1BH34Q&feature=relatedthemajormayor

Even when the size of planets/stars are dispayed on a scale like that it is still difficult to grasp how large those objects actually are.

[QUOTE="PS2_ROCKS"][QUOTE="raynimrod"]

We're so insignificant as a planet and as a species, how can we collectively be so arrogant to boot lol?

Nicksonman

i think you meant only 1% of the universe is visible to us

[QUOTE="Nicksonman"][QUOTE="PS2_ROCKS"] It helps that we've never had contact with other life forms.Crokodile69

i think you meant only 1% of the universe is visible to us

huh it looks so small when i look into the sky

That was Lawrence Krauss, he's one of my favourites.

Relevant to this thread:

Wow, I love universe related stuff. Makes me wonder that we're small. But then I don't really care, I just like to watch.

Time to post this gif

LMFAO at the end of that gif...

P.S. - I'm jealous that some massive alien out there has a Blue Sun...

[QUOTE="Dogswithguns"]There's a sun a billion times bigger than our sun?!.. wow!!!Frame_Dragger

I should clarify; anything above ~200 solar masses either blows itself apart, or undergoes collapse.

compared to other stars its rather small

There's a sun a billion times bigger than our sun?!.. wow!!!Dogswithguns

I should clarify; anything above ~200 solar masses either blows itself apart, or undergoes collapse.

compared to other stars its rather small

LaytonsCat

[QUOTE="themajormayor"][QUOTE="Frame_Dragger"] No... there are supermassive black holes that are billions of solar masses though. You can only have stars so massive before gravity overwhelms competing forces and causes runaway collapse into a compact body. Hypergiants are VERY large however, if short-lived. For the record as well, there is only one sun... Sol = The Sun.... it's a name for our primary. Other stars are... stars, or have their own names and designations other than Sol/Sun.

I should clarify; anything above ~200 solar masses either blows itself apart, or undergoes collapse.

Frame_Dragger

[QUOTE="Frame_Dragger"][QUOTE="themajormayor"] Volume wise though it is billion times bigger than the Sun.themajormayor

[QUOTE="themajormayor"]

[QUOTE="Frame_Dragger"] No... the largest star in terms of its radius, is no more than 2000 times lager than Sol.Frame_Dragger

[QUOTE="Frame_Dragger"][QUOTE="themajormayor"] But radius isn't volume. When calculating the volume the number is much larger. Basically what I'm talking about is how many suns fits into vy canis majoris. Much more than 2000. 2000 is only the radius.

themajormayor

[QUOTE="Frame_Dragger"][QUOTE="themajormayor"] But radius isn't volume. When calculating the volume the number is much larger. Basically what I'm talking about is how many suns fits into vy canis majoris. Much more than 2000. 2000 is only the radius.

themajormayor

There is a sun that is 4 million times the mass of our sun. Billions? Maybe.

[QUOTE="themajormayor"][QUOTE="Frame_Dragger"] Volume would be a function of cubing, radius is linear... you don't get from 2000-> billions with an expoential function that way. If you take the MAX, it's 800,000,000 times greater volume, at MOST.CBR600-RR

There is a sun that is 4 million times the mass of our sun. Billions? Maybe.

[QUOTE="CBR600-RR"]

[QUOTE="themajormayor"] Yes this is what I mean. The reason I said billions was because some websites said about one billion and some said about 10 billion and I was too lazy to do my own calculations :( but yeah 800,000,000 sounds reasonable. Frame_Dragger

There is a sun that is 4 million times the mass of our sun. Billions? Maybe.

A sun 20 million times the mass of our sun is enough to create a black hole.

[QUOTE="Frame_Dragger"][QUOTE="CBR600-RR"]

There is a sun that is 4 million times the mass of our sun. Billions? Maybe.

CBR600-RR

A sun 20 million times the mass of our sun is enough to create a black hole.

Some of you guys need to take an astronomy class or something so you know what you are talking about...