Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Perspective

Because sometimes we forget.



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Note: According to Wikipedia's "List of largest known stars", VV Cephei is in fact not the largest star known, that honor goes to VY Canis Majoris (although there is controversy about how big it really is).
Posted by Anony Mouse at 12:20 AM
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5 comments:

  1. David AnsaraSeptember 24, 2008 at 3:09 PM

    650 000 earth diameters... whoa.

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  2. Simon HallidaySeptember 25, 2008 at 8:53 PM

    superdoopercool

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  3. Hugh PastollSeptember 29, 2008 at 10:40 PM

    Er, doesn't the movie mix up Mars and Venus?

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  4. Anony MouseSeptember 30, 2008 at 1:34 PM

    Nope. Venus' radius is 0.949 Earth radii and Mars is 0.533 Earth radii.

    There is a reason they call Venus a "twin Earth"...

    :-)

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  5. AnonymousOctober 1, 2008 at 4:52 PM

    wow!!!

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