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- remiserg, on 07/16/2008, -0/+26No, that would be the sun. Sirius is a distant second ;)
- inactive, on 07/16/2008, -0/+21its that god damn sun, none of the other ones make me squint my eyes!
- flailking, on 07/16/2008, -1/+10It ain't Britney...
- inactive, on 07/16/2008, -1/+7surely the sun?
- epadafunk, on 07/15/2008, -2/+7Sirius is the brightest star as seen from Earth.
- veriix, on 07/16/2008, -1/+5Your mama also said she didn't have herpes...lying bitch.
- NaziHatinChimp, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3I guess they mean it's true brightness, and not just the appearance from Earth.
- Samas11, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3I'm rooting for Eta Carinae
- cutright, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3How come these types of articles always refer to Eta Carinae as one star? It is binary system. Secondly, the more massive of the stars in the system is likely die as a gamma-ray burst... not a super nova.
I'll be very interested to find out a more precise mass estimate... could this be another super-eddington star? - EatChex89, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3Just imagine: 4.7 million suns.
Amazing. I like to think that it would really be an eye-opener (no pun intended) if we were able to see it up close with our naked eyes. - nova20, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2Yes, but Eta Carinae is the (currently) the brightest star *within the Milky Way*.
- EatChex89, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2it is impossible. that's why i said if we *were* able to.
- GunnarJ, on 07/17/2008, -0/+1Niether
Millions of light years away, there are thousands of brighter stars
but what really makes my mind feel wierd is that most of us have never been in space, and we are used to our area limited to this one planet, but imagine... space goes on and on and on forever... never ending, no place where it starts back at the beginning, no brick wall stopping you from going forward, just deep space.. on and on and on... - Altesse, on 07/16/2008, -1/+2Clint Eastwood.
- RogueGenius, on 07/16/2008, -0/+1Generally they refer to absolute magnitude, which is a measure of brightness from a distance of ten light years from the star in question (which can be very difficult to determine). Its measured on a logarithmic magnitude scale that NOBODY likes, but they won't change because it's 'historic'.'
- Andrwmorph, on 07/16/2008, -0/+1I went and undugg that story because your posting it everywhere.
- Sponky, on 07/16/2008, -0/+1Intrinsic or absolute magnitude? (sorry I'll go RTFA now).
- DjViper, on 07/17/2008, -0/+1You are, according to James Blunt ;)
- tcpip4lyfe, on 07/16/2008, -0/+1Report this guy. He's just a link spammer.
- cutright, on 07/16/2008, -0/+1Your eyes "measure" brightness on a logarithmic scale too...
- purecheese, on 07/16/2008, -1/+1If you went to the glow in the dark tour you would know that its Kanye West
- thePTS, on 07/16/2008, -2/+2naked eyes in space with that amount of radiation.. hmmm.. I don't know if I would recommend it, but whatever floats your boat!
- juliaperesypko, on 07/16/2008, -1/+1very beautiful star...
- RKnight, on 07/16/2008, -2/+1Eta Carinae about 7500 light years away. "For all we know, they may have already blown themselves up and we're just waiting for the light to get to us to tell us that,"
That always amazes me about space... 7500 light years away. Meaning today we are witnessing the events of the star that played out 7,500 years ago. Kind of hard to conceive, right? - goochballs, on 07/16/2008, -5/+4my mama always told me i was the brightest star... wtf???
- sdocpublishing, on 07/16/2008, -6/+1It all sounds like a bunch of hot gas to me!
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