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[Pic] Sun = 1 Pixel

Started by Wanderermy, Jul 24 2010 06:43

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#1 Wanderermy

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Posted 24 July 2010 - 06:43

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Posted 24 July 2010 - 06:55

Beautiful. I love space.

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Posted 24 July 2010 - 07:59

That's amazing! I love the flares on the last two :D.

#4 Solid Knight

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Posted 24 July 2010 - 08:00

We all got shafted with this laughably small sun.

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Posted 24 July 2010 - 08:11

Small stars ftw!

The smaller the star, the longer it lives. The large starts last for a few hundred million years, the small stars live for tens of billions of years or more (depending on how small they are)

#6 Kerm

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Posted 24 July 2010 - 08:17

Just incomprehensible.

Thanks for that.

#7 insomniac9

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Posted 24 July 2010 - 08:22

wow, the flares on the last 2 look amazing

#8 clotz2000

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Posted 24 July 2010 - 08:30

Sweet pic man!!

I'm glad our Sun is the 1 pixel star, if any of the other stars were as close to us as the Sun is we would all be dust, actually we wouldn't be here to begin with...

It is pretty crazy how these stars are so huge, and we think the Sun is sorta big

#9 +Mystic

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Posted 24 July 2010 - 16:00

One of the commentors on the Kotaku article that posted this, linked to a pretty cool Youtube video.

#10 Neoauld

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Posted 24 July 2010 - 16:08

I cant even imagine looking at something that big

#11 sundayx

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Posted 24 July 2010 - 16:12

View Postclotz2000, on 24 July 2010 - 08:30, said:

...and we think the Sun is sorta big
Hell I think an elephant is big.

#12 ThePitt

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Posted 24 July 2010 - 16:14

too big... I cant see any image

#13 ViZioN

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Posted 24 July 2010 - 16:19

There's a cool gif I found months ago that shows something similar:

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Space is awesome :woot:

#14 +Mephistopheles

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Posted 24 July 2010 - 16:19

The picture and more so the video linked above gives you an idea of how incredibly big objects in the universe can be.

Like it says at the end of the video: 'No, you are not the centre of the universe.'

#15 epk

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Posted 24 July 2010 - 17:00

Amazing pic, thanks for sharing ^^

yeah, well, the giants are old stars.. so, size don't matter? lol ;D
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