And you thought Oresrati was far!

[Fatleaf]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13539914

[DaddyHoggy]

That must have been a ruddy big star to have formed and then consumed all of its fuel in just c. 500 million years!

[ClymAngus]

Probably even bigger, as star formation wasn't possible for a fair spell after the big bang. What cooks my brain is the force needed to stop the whole bang shoot collapsing back in on itself 1 second in.

[Fatleaf]

Which when you think about Betelgeuse which the corona stretches out to the equivalent of Saturn's orbit yet the actual mass of the star is believed to be no more than 18 to 19 Suns. This colossal has the mas of 30 Suns or so! The bigger they are the hotter they burn and the shorter their life, but when they go, boy, they GO!

[ClymAngus]

30 suns? What about Eta Carinae? Hell, s*d Eta Carinae, what about VY Canis Majoris?
SERIOUS Bloaters.

you know I think we've done this before........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEheh1BH ... r_embedded

[Fatleaf]

Then in mass terms we have http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R136a1 which has 265 solar masses yet VY Canis Majoris is only between 30 nad 40 solar masses. Just wait for that one to get frisky!

[ClymAngus]

ah! There is Radius then there is mass!
I'm a dumb ass, I apologise! Friday + beer makes fools of the intellectual and the dunce.

Still looking at the SIZE of these things; one might assume 100-200-300...... 3000 the mass it is difficult some times to comprehend the girth in relation to the squash.

[drew]

Gentlemen,

Mere pansies. My submission.

Cheers,

Drew.

[CommonSenseOTB]

The latest theory says that cosmic rays affect the weather by affecting cloud formation(makes more). Have you noticed how much more active the weather has become in the last 2 years alone? North America is being hit hard with extremes of weather colliding together with disastrous results. Here in Saskatchewan only about 100 km separates rainy and waterlogged(or flooded) land from parched dry(last 3 weeks) land that's now prone to forest fire(the last year and a half this land was also waterlogged(saturated). What gives?

[Fatleaf]

Gentlemen,Mere pansies.

I Take issue with you sir! Your weak as water submission has at most a piddling 100 solar masses. Only but a boy compared with the hard as nails 256 candidate R136a1!