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Enthusiast

(50,983 posts) Sun Oct 4, 2015, 03:12 PM Oct 2015

Star size comparison.

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Star size comparison. (Original Post) Enthusiast Oct 2015 OP

Thank You For Sharing cantbeserious Oct 2015 #1

Very cool video but needs updating pokerfan Oct 2015 #2

That is simply amazing! Enthusiast Oct 2015 #3

If the earth Mendocino Oct 2015 #4

If the earth were 8 inches in diameter... A HERETIC I AM Oct 2015 #9

Actually, after seeing Proxima Centauri next to Jupiter kentauros Oct 2015 #6

That was fun! Enthusiast Oct 2015 #7

That was quite humbling. nt Laffy Kat Oct 2015 #5

Astronomy gives one a proper and humbling sense hifiguy Oct 2015 #8

cantbeserious

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1. Thank You For Sharing

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Sun Oct 4, 2015, 03:33 PM

Oct 2015

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pokerfan

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2. Very cool video but needs updating

Reply to Enthusiast (Original post)

Sun Oct 4, 2015, 03:56 PM

Oct 2015

VT Canis Majoris presently checks in at #8 on the list of largest stars.

The current leader is UY Scuti which is more than 1,700 times larger than our sun!

If this star was in our sun's position it would engulf Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars and Jupiter stretching almost to Saturn!

If our sun was the size of a basketball, UY Scuti would be over quarter mile in diameter!