Comments on: Baby, you’re a star

By: Jeromatic

Jeromatic — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:04:48 +0000

Cool.. I am so addicted to those astronomy shows on History channel and the Science channel!…

By: Nickolas

Nickolas — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:30:36 +0000

Interesting… it kinda puts us into our relative position… which is pretty small!

By: Og

Og — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 13:16:07 +0000

Yeah, we’re pretty insignificant. I have another post coming on the SuperEarth they just found. And no kidding. Hmm.

By: cathbad

cathbad — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 12:50:22 +0000

Hey Steve,

This is amazing. I still just cannot figure the relative sizes of the Cephei and our sun. Watched it about 5 times in a row, jaw dropping, with sophie.

We are soooo… nothing, uh ?

By: Sardtok

Sardtok — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 00:26:35 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_stars

If you have a look at the third one from the top (VV Cephei), which should be similar in size to W Cephei, there’s an illustration showing it would almost reach Jupiter if it was our sun.
VY Canis Major, the largest observed star, could possibly reach Saturn. Pretty huge.