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Three Largest Stars Identified

Posted by timothy on from the larry-curly-and-moe dept.

mOoZik writes "BBC News is reporting that astronomers have identified the three biggest stars known to science, having diameters of more than 1.5 billion km. If they were located in the same place as our own Sun - at the centre of the Solar System - the stars would stretch out further than the orbit of Jupiter!"

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  1. The three widest stars? by gbulmash · · Score: 3, Funny
    The three largest stars with huge diameters? That's easy... Louie Anderson, Bruce Bruce, and Roseanne.

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    1. Re:The three widest stars? by tuxter · · Score: 2, Funny

      Don't forget john holmes... he was a HUGE star.

  2. I'd like to announce the official... by The+Ultimate+Fartkno · · Score: 4, Funny

    ..."Name Three Fat Women In Entertainment" thread right here. Skill points will be deducted for all mentions of Delta Burke, Oprah, and Anna Nicole Smith. You have thirty seconds from the time you read the headline and pounced on the "reply" button.

    Go.

  3. My only wish by nihilogos · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is that at least one giant goes supernova in my lifetime. I don't think that's too much to ask

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    1. Re:My only wish by sTalking_Goat · · Score: 2, Funny

      You might be in luck. I hear the Vogons have got a contract for another Interstellar Overpass...

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    2. Re:My only wish by daeg · · Score: 3, Funny

      Dear nihilogos: We're sorry, but all intelligent designers are currently assisting other beings. Your request will be tended to in the the order that was receieved. The current wait time is: /pause/ 3 billion years. Please hold.

    3. Re:My only wish by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      The offending super giant better be a good distance away. Otherwise the bone charing radiation bathing the solar system and nearby regions would be anything *but* funny for life forms like us.

  4. Solist! by IcEMaN252 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't be so ethnocentric. There are such things as trinary systems.

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  5. this just in by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    The scientists credited with the discovery was seen singing "I like big stars and I cannot lie" the following day at a Mall by area man Jeff Willcot.

    Willcot, who works as a plumber, said to journalists in a press conference "He things he's such a freaking bitshot now that he got all the press about the stars, but when his sink was clogged with hair - he calls me"

    The scientist was unavailable for comment.

  6. Imagine a cluster of stars... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... and the astronomers name it the Beowulf Cluster.

  7. If they were located in the same place by frovingslosh · · Score: 4, Funny
    If they were located in the same place as our own Sun - at the centre of the Solar System - the stars would stretch out further than the orbit of Jupiter!"

    Shows what little they know. If they were located in the same place as our own Sun, Jupiter would burn up and not have an orbit!

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  8. Re:Britney, Maddona, Streisand by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    It awes one to think any single object could be so bloody large!

    Speak for yourself.

  9. Re:Non Red Giants by Feztaa · · Score: 2, Funny

    Actually, it will engulf the first three planets

    Pfffft, good riddance I say.

  10. Re:just wondering by SandmanWAIX · · Score: 5, Funny

    supernovae . The collapse of these massive stars may produce a neutron star or a black hole .

    For a detailed example of supernovae -> black hole, click here.

  11. Wrong Units by willpall · · Score: 4, Funny

    "1.5 billion km across" means nothing to me. How many Libraries of Congress could the star hold?

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  12. Re:3 Biggest Stars by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    The fact that someone actually modded this informative makes it that much more funny.

  13. Thanks for the tip! by po8 · · Score: 2, Funny

    If they were located in the same place as our own Sun - at the centre of the Solar System...

    So that's where I left it!

  14. Re:For Americans: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Or 8.81419673 × 10^11 smoots.

  15. Re:Largest? by RajivSLK · · Score: 1, Funny

    So wouldn't it be cooler to find actually non-dying star of this magnitude?

    What the hell? You act like the universe is your backyard sandbox. What's out there is what's out there. Sure it would be cool if we found a 3 foot tall leprichan that could shoot fireballs out of his ass running around on mars but it's just not going to happen buddy.

    <retard>Wouldn't it be cooler though? </retard>

    And for god sakes who modded him up?

  16. Star Jones! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'd like to submit Star Jones. She's HUGE! Sorry, got a big caught up in the excitement.

  17. Re:just wondering by Eccles · · Score: 2, Funny

    Can a star really be that thin?

    Yes, but only if it gets lots of sleep.

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  18. No ! by Professeur+Shadoko · · Score: 2, Funny

    The right unit is: (pick one)
    1/Furlongs
    2/Light-Fortnight