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).

5 comments:

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

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  2. 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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