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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. 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.

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

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

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  3. 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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  4. 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.

  5. 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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