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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. just wondering by adamruck · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Why wouldn't these huge starts turn into black holes?

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    1. Re:just wondering by techno-vampire · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Alas, there are no green stars. Even if their temperature is such that their radiation peaks there, green has such a narrow band of frequencies that either yellow or blue will always predominate.

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  2. Largest? by marevan · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't red giants dencity pretty low? So when a star transforms into a red giant, it's bound to get much larger. So wouldn't it be cooler to find actually non-dying star of this magnitude?

    (Well definetly not cooler)