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Sunday, 25 July 2010

Mars Stars

Space is on the summer grapevine this month. I recieved an email saying that Mars will appear as big as the Moon on August 27th. Sounding like a scene from 'When Worlds Collide' I naturally checked it out. Alas it turns out to be an inflated story on an annual loop with a tiny grain of truth at its core. Mars does fly close to us every 2 years but not that close and not this year. Or?
I also picked up the 'the largest body in the Universe' had been found! I can't find any current intel on this online. It depends what 'body' means? As far as I'm aware the biggest 'body' in space is Antares? Or?
 
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3 comments:

  1. Hugh Walter7/25/2010 1:30 pm

    Apparently this new sun is twice the size of the previously known biggest; Antares (?), or a factor of + X250 compared to our/THE sun!

    'Jeciling'...teasing someone with a Crow in either hand!

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  2. eviled7/26/2010 12:13 am

    Decent link:

    quote:
    Using a combination of instruments on ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronomers have discovered the most massive stars to date, some weighing at birth more than 300 times the mass of the Sun, or twice as much as the currently accepted limit of 150 solar masses...

    http://www.astromart.com/news/news.asp?news_id=1093

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  3. eviled7/26/2010 12:16 am

    More linkies

    http://www.shef.ac.uk/mediacentre/2010/1713.html

    http://www.astromart.com/news/news.asp?news_id=1044

    http://www.astromart.com/news/news.asp?news_id=1021

    http://www.astromart.com/news/news.asp?news_id=971

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