So it is Friday, right...
Think of the irony of having a bug in your Betelgeuse ("beetle"-juice)
application. :-)
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Joe Martin D'Souza <[email protected]>wrote:
> **
>
> VY Canis Majoris is the biggest from the list.. Sounds like a geeky name
> too!
>
> The sun is just a little speck compared to the size of VY Canis Majoris
> which is estimated to be 1800 to 2100 solar radii (1 solar radius is the
> radius of the sun – obviously and hence the term solar radius). Here are
> some facts about the sizes of these stars..
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VY_Canis_Majoris
>
> This is the list of largest known stars..
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_known_stars
>
> And some comparisons with some of our planets including the earth with the
> size of the sun and the size of the 15th largest star.
> http://www.co-intelligence.org/newsletter/comparisons.html
>
> Can you imagine if we lived on a planet as big as the VY Canis Majoris?
> Technically it would have not been possible even if it did have an
> atmosphere and water and everything else conducive to existence of life..
>
> Joe
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