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- jewdiknight, on 11/01/2007, -1/+30I was hoping to see a monster in space.
- jogleby, on 11/01/2007, -2/+27"these stars are massive and very shiny"
I was somehow hoping for something a bit more technical. - sockpuppets, on 11/01/2007, -2/+24I was expecting a photo of Rosie O'Donnell after trick or treating.
- heartcoldfusion, on 11/04/2007, -2/+13That article was just brutal to read.
- qmeister, on 11/01/2007, -1/+8I was looking for a fat kid mauing down a bunch of milky ways....
- Jschluet, on 11/01/2007, -2/+8This article is vague, boring and not even worthy of news. buried.
- inactive, on 11/01/2007, -0/+6Which way is the "southern region of the Milky Way"?
- mlvassallo, on 10/31/2007, -0/+5I was hoping to see a monster made from candy bars :(
- inactive, on 11/01/2007, -1/+6I'm only allowed to use the internet when Mother goes out for cigarettes and lottery tickets.
- consoneo, on 10/31/2007, -0/+5Yeah, and I'm pretty sure this is probably one of the "worst writing" category winners, in the scientific genre.
- FrayWing, on 11/01/2007, -3/+7Was a the only one who thought this involved Milky Way candy-bars?
- Otto, on 11/01/2007, -2/+6Interesting, but the thing reads like it's written for a 6 year old. Or possibly by a 6 year old.
- koretico, on 10/31/2007, -0/+4"But there are few things we know about these true giants which have the astounding ability to dispers their matter under the form of solar winds"
yes... like the sun...
it looks like a kid's text :) - gropo, on 10/31/2007, -0/+3"Moffat has discovered a star about 100 times bigger than the Sun in the southern region of the Milky Way. The biggest discovered star was about 83 times bigger than the sun."
How can this be? When you use Celestia to check out the red giants and plot a camera distance of 1AU (distance from the surface of the Sun to Earth) many giants extend out to about that distance. That is to say, a 1AU radius almost. How can that NOT be a great deal larger than "100 times" the size? - MxM111, on 10/31/2007, -0/+3Is it 100 times larger in linear size, in volume or in mass?
- strib666, on 11/01/2007, -0/+3Looks like it was written by a 4th grader. Most ESL students write better than that.
- BlackOp, on 10/31/2007, -0/+2I'm pretty sure we know of stars millions of times bigger than the sun. There is one that would extend out to Saturn afaik
- creoderiot, on 11/01/2007, -1/+3I checked the url to see if perhaps it had been automatically translated.
nope...just a mild case of engrish as a first language - Akaricloud, on 11/01/2007, -0/+2"how big do stars get? what happens to a star which has a larger mass than it is able to support? we are just beginning to understand those things"
Are you joking? This is highschool Physics right here.
Basic explanation: All stars come together through a process where by interstellar gas, molecular clouds and dust groups together through gravitational pull. After millions of years of this process the ball of gas and dust reaches a point where its gravity is so strong that it pulls everything in so much that it reaches a temperature at which it "turns on" and begins to expand again under the internal temperature. It continues to act in an expand, retract, expand fashion until it reaches a point of equilibrium between gravity sucking in and temperature and heat pushing out. At which point it becomes a protostar and it begins fusing hydrogen in its core via the Proton-Proton module, creating helium. If during the protostar stage however, all the gas and dust formed into the ball is either at a point of less then .1 solar masses or greater then 100 solar masses (our sun is = 1 solar mass) then the star will not ignite due to not enough gravitational force, or will become unstable and explode due to too much force (respectively)
As prol has pointed out, there are stars far greater then even 800 times the radius of our Sun. At a point in a stars life where it has completed fusing hydrogen in its core and it begins fusing the helium created through the P-P cycle, it becomes a red giant and can swell to several hundred times its original size, our son alone is expected to swell over 100 times its original size during this phase (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Sun_red_giant.s ...
After the red giant phase in a stars life, at which all the Helium has been fused to far heavy elements up to (iron?) through the Triple Alpha reaction model of fusing the outer shells of a star explode away. If at this point in a stars life, the star was less then 5 solar masses (our son is 1 solar mass) then after this explosion a planetary nebula is created leaving behind also a white dwarf star of less then 1.4 solar masses (which is essentially a carbon filled star)
If however the red giant was greater then 5 solar masses, it will go Supernova and depending upon what is left, if the remnants are < 3 solar masses a neutron star forms (electrons collapsing in upon themselves, breaking electron bonds to the point of density where only neutron forces prevent futher colapse) but if the remnants are > 3 solar masses neutron forces can not prevent the collapse and as such a black hole forms.
Yes, I know that was not called for at all, I just wrote that quickly in a few minutes, but I mean that is high school physics right there. This was a pretty bad article, and IDK how it even made it to the front page. Figured I would give you some easy reading :)
PS. I didn't mention in between things such as pulsars or small noavs etc. Simply because I am lazy. - MrNexus, on 10/31/2007, -0/+2So, this article has nothing to do with the flying spaghetti monster?
- inactive, on 11/01/2007, -1/+3Thank you for brightening my day with that comment.
However I did not appreciate the mental image of a naked, chocolate covered Rosie. - inactive, on 11/01/2007, -2/+3Very poorly written article. Buried as blogspam.
- inactive, on 10/31/2007, -0/+1It's over 9000!
- prol, on 11/01/2007, -0/+1A team of Canadian astronomers at the University of Montreal led by physicist Anthony Moffat has discovered a star about 100 times bigger than the Sun in the southern region of the Milky Way. The biggest discovered star was about 83 times bigger than the sun.
What do they mean by this? The star Betelgeuse has a radius about 800 times greater than the Sun's. The Pistol Star apparently has been estimated at being up to 150 times the mass of the sun. I don't get it. - PRlME, on 11/01/2007, -2/+3heres a better image
http://www.takeourword.com/images/milky-way-bar.gi ... - slashbot, on 11/01/2007, -1/+2Sounds like an awesome costume.
Think of it as the candy bar's revenge - Twoodge, on 10/31/2007, -2/+3And my linkage failed :(.
Hopefully this will work... http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/852/cielingcatc ... - moskaudancer, on 10/31/2007, -0/+1I'm completely serious when I say that's exactly what I expected, too. It's not altogether an odd assumption, considering what's been on Digg lately.
- elkboy, on 10/31/2007, -1/+2Am I the only one who saw the image and then read the article and then realized the two are not related?
- andrewsavage, on 11/01/2007, -0/+1I swear, this article was written by a fifth grader. "The stars is part of a class of stars named Wolf Rayet; these stars are massive and very shiny-". "Probably the biggest stars in our universe are a part of this category or at least Anthony Moffat thinks so."
- julianrod, on 10/31/2007, -0/+1The FSM?
- YourParadigm, on 11/01/2007, -0/+1I was wondering that exact thing. Buried as retarded.
- DolFan, on 11/02/2007, -0/+1I give props to the person for trying to be 'out there' where we could drop by and then criticize their work. But, as mentioned before, the work itself is questionable.
"For a star to remain coherent it has to have a balance between the gravity which pulls matter into the center and the outside forces which attract the matter"
Balance between gravity and gravity?
- izzybomb, on 10/31/2007, -0/+1ditto...figured on halloween thats what this would be referencing.
- 2bees, on 11/01/2007, -1/+1Is this about Candy Bars?
- mgood16, on 10/31/2007, -1/+1Check out the sponsors on the page. I couldn't decide if I wanted to visit sponsor 1, 2, 3, or 4.
- kevincross, on 11/01/2007, -1/+1buried as wildly inaccurate.
- inactive, on 11/01/2007, -2/+1As the caveman said" Uh WHAT?"
- Twoodge, on 10/31/2007, -2/+1http://www.lolcatbible.com/images/5/5f/Cieling_cat ...
This is the closest you're gonna get. - dondara, on 11/01/2007, -2/+1Wow, all the cool, interesting and informative things on the interweb and that ***** gets posted. Did this get dugg as a joke? That I could understand ...sort of.
- xsni, on 11/04/2007, -2/+1The universe is mesmerizing...
- RegularJohn, on 11/04/2007, -3/+1awesome!
- nofactor, on 11/04/2007, -3/+1cool
- inactive, on 11/04/2007, -8/+2Simply amazing.
