The hottest, most massive and most luminious star in the universe discovered

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#1 Artas1984
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The R163 object in Tarantula Nebula was known for years, but just know it's stars were identified precisely

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-10707416

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#2 flash_drive
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cool!
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the girl in the video needs to slow down when talking :lol:

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#4 ferrari2001
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Isn't this like a week old?
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#5 -Tish-
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I don't know how they can tell by those photos because I sure can't.
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#6 specialzed
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This thread title is incorrect, how can anyone be sure this is the biggest?

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#7 Bluestorm-Kalas
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This thread title is incorrect, how can anyone be sure this is the biggest?

specialzed

Probably in the known universe.

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among my favorite things discovered in space include Hubble Deep Field photos, the discovery of "the Blob" (largest object in the universe) and personally for me my first visit to SpaceWeather.com, it's a scary site to watch, they've tracked some near earth asteroid misses that are pretty significant
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#9 Artas1984
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It's not the bigest star, it's the most massive and luminous star - totaly different things, although it is still very big - 35 times more wider in radius than the sun, there is a picture.. You will find that quite often the biggest stars in the universe weight a lot less than our sun. Actually our sun is extremely dense for it's little size.

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Neat, So when do we colonize it?
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i want to witness a supernova b4 i die....

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#13 specialzed
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It's not the bigest star, it's the most massive and luminous star - totaly different things, although it is still very big - 35 times more wider in radius than the sun, there is a picture.. You will find that quite often the biggest stars in the universe weight a lot less than our sun. Actually our sun is extremely dense for it's little size.

Artas1984
"Biggest" and "most massive" are the same thing, 2 words for the same thing that this new star is not.
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Isn't this like a week old?ferrari2001
Yes. Awesome none the less.
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#15 Artas1984
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[QUOTE="Artas1984"]

It's not the bigest star, it's the most massive and luminous star - totaly different things, although it is still very big - 35 times more wider in radius than the sun, there is a picture.. You will find that quite often the biggest stars in the universe weight a lot less than our sun. Actually our sun is extremely dense for it's little size.

specialzed

"Biggest" and "most massive" are the same thing, 2 words for the same thing that this new star is not.

ONCE AGAIN - IT IS NOT THE SAME THING..

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

Big is an adjective that determines the visual size of the object, not it's density.

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#16 NiteLights
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Cool.

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Can we start purchasing property yet?
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Thought you were talking about my heart for a minute....
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#19 jubino
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I thought this was a thread about Kim Kardashian and her massive glutes.

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They finally decided to look in Xaos' pants, eh?
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It's not the bigest star, it's the most massive and luminous star - totaly different things, although it is still very big - 35 times more wider in radius than the sun, there is a picture.. You will find that quite often the biggest stars in the universe weight a lot less than our sun. Actually our sun is extremely dense for it's little size.

Artas1984

You know what that means. Fusion, Doubles Get; Iron; Collapses into itself: AN HERO.

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#23 Solid_Snake325
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damn thought this was a jessica alba thread.
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#24 dramaybaz
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Universe, or Galaxy?
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#25 MrMcElliot
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I thought this was a thread about Kim Kardashian and her massive glutes.

jubino

We can only wish....

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[QUOTE="lamprey263"]among my favorite things discovered in space include Hubble Deep Field photos, the discovery of "the Blob" (largest object in the universe) and personally for me my first visit to SpaceWeather.com, it's a scary site to watch, they've tracked some near earth asteroid misses that are pretty significant

That video just blew my mind! :o
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#27 MrMcElliot
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[QUOTE="jubino"]

I thought this was a thread about Kim Kardashian and her massive glutes.

MrMcElliot

We can only wish....

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#28 jubino
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[QUOTE="MrMcElliot"]

[QUOTE="jubino"]

I thought this was a thread about Kim Kardashian and her massive glutes.

MrMcElliot

We can only wish....

That's terrifying. Why am I hungry?

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i want to witness a supernova b4 i die....

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If you do, it will probably be about 11 nanoseconds before you do
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#30 jubino
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[QUOTE="GrabTheYayo"]

i want to witness a supernova b4 i die....

xaos
If you do, it will probably be about 11 nanoseconds before you do

Just enough time to grab a camera and...
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#31 deactivated-5c8e4e07d5510
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Oh man, imagine the supernova that thing will create!
Isn't this like a week old?ferrari2001
Because it's a week old means it can't be posted on GS? :?
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#32 afflictatrophy
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I don't know how they can tell by those photos because I sure can't. -Tish-

they dont use the picture to measure anything. to find mass they use either a binary star with newton's version of kepler's third law or they plot it on the H-R diagram as long as it is in the main sequence. to find temp they use the stars color and spectral lines, to find distance they probably use stellar parallax as long as the star is close enough, or they might use a standard candle within the cloud that the star is located in or use the inverse square law for light, to find luminosity they use inverse square law for light, which uses distance and apparent magnitude, or the H-R diagram. :)

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#33 kidsmelly
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So we can make a hottest star thread but not a hottest girl thread. Boo I demand a democratic vote on this.

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#34 Artas1984
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i want to witness a supernova b4 i die....

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The last supernova witnessed bye eye was in 2008, so it's not a rare occurrence, you might get your chance - stay looking all day at the skies with a 7,5 cm refractor, don't go to job, don't meet friends, don't eat and don't do other things alike - just stay focused on the skies and you might witness a barely noticeable appearance of a new spot!!!

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#35 zmbi_gmr
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thread is old, but still interesting.

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#36 Acemaster27
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I thought it was Karen Gillan!
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#37 LIONHEART-_-
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So big but I wonder what's bigger, that star or that Canis Majoris?
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#38 Artas1984
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So big but I wonder what's bigger, that star or that Canis Majoris?LIONHEART-_-

Canis Majoris is alot bigger, some 57 times more wide in radius, but is it also about 15 times lighter than R136A1

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#39 deactivated-5e836a855beb2
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until the next one
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#40 LIONHEART-_-
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So we can make a hottest star thread but not a hottest girl thread. Boo I demand a democratic vote on this.

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The mods will get you for sure if you ever made a thread about that..
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#41 deactivated-5e836a855beb2
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So we can make a hottest star thread but not a hottest girl thread. Boo I demand a democratic vote on this.

kidsmelly
you could call it the hottest star thread but have it be about the stars in hollywood!