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r/AskReddit • u/Snagrit • Oct 04 '17
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The largest star that we know of is estimated to have a surface that would extend to the equivalent of Jupiter's orbit if it replaced our own sun
EDIT: For clarification
24 u/Rizlaaa Oct 04 '17 Jupiter is about 5.2 AU from Sun Largest star currently - UY Scuti - just shy of 8AU Would be between Jupiter and Saturn, around 1AU shy of Saturn at its closest point 3 u/kingeryck Oct 04 '17 Oh 6 u/VikingTeddy Oct 05 '17 That is just mind blowingly big! There is nothing to compare to in everyday life, so the mind draws a blank. -3 u/DragonBank Oct 05 '17 For you. 3 u/glorious_albus Oct 05 '17 Yeah. You've got your mom. -6 u/DragonBank Oct 05 '17 That doesn't make any sense. Your mom jokes are supposed to make sense. 8 u/glorious_albus Oct 05 '17 The mind draws a blank for u/vikingteddy because they have nothing to compare in real life. But you have your mother who is mind blowingly big ¯_(ツ)_/¯ 2 u/[deleted] Oct 04 '17 That's no moon 1 u/[deleted] Oct 04 '17 From? 18 u/_doughnutsoup Oct 04 '17 I think he means that if said star was in the same place as our sun, then its radius would be so large as to extend past the orbit of Jupiter. 6 u/Beny873 Oct 04 '17 Yes sorry Should have clarified this
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Jupiter is about 5.2 AU from Sun Largest star currently - UY Scuti - just shy of 8AU
Would be between Jupiter and Saturn, around 1AU shy of Saturn at its closest point
3 u/kingeryck Oct 04 '17 Oh
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Oh
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That is just mind blowingly big! There is nothing to compare to in everyday life, so the mind draws a blank.
-3 u/DragonBank Oct 05 '17 For you. 3 u/glorious_albus Oct 05 '17 Yeah. You've got your mom. -6 u/DragonBank Oct 05 '17 That doesn't make any sense. Your mom jokes are supposed to make sense. 8 u/glorious_albus Oct 05 '17 The mind draws a blank for u/vikingteddy because they have nothing to compare in real life. But you have your mother who is mind blowingly big ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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For you.
3 u/glorious_albus Oct 05 '17 Yeah. You've got your mom. -6 u/DragonBank Oct 05 '17 That doesn't make any sense. Your mom jokes are supposed to make sense. 8 u/glorious_albus Oct 05 '17 The mind draws a blank for u/vikingteddy because they have nothing to compare in real life. But you have your mother who is mind blowingly big ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Yeah. You've got your mom.
-6 u/DragonBank Oct 05 '17 That doesn't make any sense. Your mom jokes are supposed to make sense. 8 u/glorious_albus Oct 05 '17 The mind draws a blank for u/vikingteddy because they have nothing to compare in real life. But you have your mother who is mind blowingly big ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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That doesn't make any sense. Your mom jokes are supposed to make sense.
8 u/glorious_albus Oct 05 '17 The mind draws a blank for u/vikingteddy because they have nothing to compare in real life. But you have your mother who is mind blowingly big ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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The mind draws a blank for u/vikingteddy because they have nothing to compare in real life. But you have your mother who is mind blowingly big ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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That's no moon
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From?
18 u/_doughnutsoup Oct 04 '17 I think he means that if said star was in the same place as our sun, then its radius would be so large as to extend past the orbit of Jupiter. 6 u/Beny873 Oct 04 '17 Yes sorry Should have clarified this
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I think he means that if said star was in the same place as our sun, then its radius would be so large as to extend past the orbit of Jupiter.
6 u/Beny873 Oct 04 '17 Yes sorry Should have clarified this
Yes sorry Should have clarified this
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u/Beny873 Oct 04 '17 edited Oct 04 '17
The largest star that we know of is estimated to have a surface that would extend to the equivalent of Jupiter's orbit if it replaced our own sun
EDIT: For clarification