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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. Size does matter by Stumbles · · Score: 0, Redundant
    the stars would stretch out further than the orbit of Jupiter!

    That's really, really big man.

    Rocko.

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  2. Obligatory by obender · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these