Do you feel small??

by **Spirit of Desire** » 10 Jan 12, 5:28 pm

The orange star in the constolation Orion is called Betelgeuse. It can be seen through the naked eye from earth and its orange hue can be discerned from the usual white stars we see.

Betelgeuse is one of the largest stars we know of and ready to go bang at any point, however if it did it would take about 640 years for the light to reach us due to the star being about 640 light years away. 1 light year is around 6.2 trillion miles or just under 10 trillion kilometers and yet we cna still see it from earth. This is because if it was in our solar system it would be bigger than the distance from the sun to just past jupiter.

Betelgeuse is so big that it could fit 1.6 billion suns inside it.

So, do you feel small yet??

(I bought a book about the universe today, can you tell???)

by **cerina** » 10 Jan 12, 5:32 pm

Great picture and fascinating facts.

by **Spirit of Desire** » 10 Jan 12, 5:34 pm

This is my life now, im either drawing, being in uni or spouting random facts about the universe.

by **cerina** » 10 Jan 12, 5:42 pm

You've given up beer, women and smoking? :eek:

You'll be making your own dresses next.

by **Spirit of Desire** » 10 Jan 12, 5:44 pm

I can't afford to smoke women and drink cigerettes anymore.

Also, I have made a dress before and am fairly confident I could do it again.

by **cerina** » 10 Jan 12, 5:47 pm

My Dad used to make all my school uniforms when I was a kid. :mrgreen:

As for the other bit ... I have a feeling you might be doing something wrong.

by **Spirit of Desire** » 10 Jan 12, 5:50 pm

There just aren't enough hours in the day, I have had to consolodate.

by **mugley** » 10 Jan 12, 5:51 pm

some where on here there is a thread showing the comparative sizes of the earth to the sun and then to the other stars including betelguise

by **Spirit of Desire** » 10 Jan 12, 5:55 pm

This?

by **mugley** » 10 Jan 12, 7:55 pm

thaty's not the one I was thinking of, but same idea

by **Don't Blink** » 10 Jan 12, 8:39 pm

http://www.bitoffun.com/video_vault/size-of-stars.html

by **Spirit of Desire** » 11 Jan 12, 3:44 pm

I read the next chapter.

An exploding star or a crashing asteroid would end life on this planet easily. However it is believed that most of the key elements of live were brought to this planet from exploding stars and crashing asteroids.

So we are all made from carbon from stars. We are all made of stardust.

by **Jack Flash** » 11 Jan 12, 4:08 pm

Yep, you were a star before you knew it :lmao:

by **mugley** » 11 Jan 12, 4:13 pm

so before you were conceived, you were a shooting star :lmao:

by **Spirit of Desire** » 11 Jan 12, 4:20 pm

mugley wrote:so before you were conceived, you were a shooting star

No no no.

Shooting stars brought water to earth because shooting stars are really large lumps of ice, water then made it possible for life to develop on earth.

Really Mugley do try to make an effort :lmao:

by **mugley** » 11 Jan 12, 4:26 pm

ask your dad :lmao:

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