Posts Tagged ‘Stars’

The Largest Black Holes in the Universe

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

We’ve never seen them directly, yet we know they are there, lurking within dense star clusters or wandering the dust lanes of the galaxy, where they prey on stars, or swallow planets whole. Our Milky Way may harbor millions of these black holes, the ultra dense remnants of dead stars. But now, in the universe far beyond our galaxy, there’s evidence of something even more ominous: a breed of black holes that have reached incomprehensible size and destructive power. How big can they get? What’s the largest so far detected? Where does an 18 billion solar mass black hole hide?

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Planets and Stars (please read (more info) )

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

READ THIS FIRST! : The Size Of planets and Stars to Scale (see NOTE)
Name of planets as shown:
Pluto Mercury Mars Venus Earth Neptune Uranus Jupiter Saturn
Name of Stars as shown:
Sun Sirius Vega Pollux Arcturus Aldebaran Rigel Deneb Pistol Star Betelgeuse Antares VV Cephei
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Name of Song: Stakka & K Tee – Rubber Bullet
Original video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1NkoZeTEWc
Author: jaxxrr
Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/jaxxrr
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NOTE: This video is a edited version of “Energy vs Information” made by jaxxrr (to which all credit goes to), I was very impressed by the production value both the video and music.

Seeing that it received few hits, which may be due to the title and tags. In order for more people to see and enjoy this video I mirrored the edited version, so people won’t get too side tracked on the political message. (Although I’m against wars and big oil as well)

Please see the original version if you like here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1NkoZeTEWc

-=NOTE=-
This video was made BEFORE “VY Canis Majoris” was listed as the largest known star, When this video was made 2006 by it’s author JAXXrr, the star “VV Cephei A” was listed as the largest known star.

For a list of current largest “known” stars see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_known_stars
Keep in mind while watching this video that the “largest known stars” are all found in our own galaxy (The Milky Way). We know of only of a very few of the estimated 200-300 Billion stars that make up our galaxy, which is just ONE of at least 300-500 billion galaxies in the visible universe.
To learn more about the Universe see this site; it will blow your mind!…

http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/12lys.html

Just keep zooming out……..

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Our Solar System – Size Of Planets and Stars to Scale

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

music is from the movie “The Island”
composed by Steve Jablonsky

1. This Tongue Thing’s Amazing
2. The Island Awaits You

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Pluto Mercury Mars Venus Earth Neptune Uranus Jupiter Saturn Sun Sirius Vega Pollux Arcturus Aldebaran Rigel Deneb Pistol Star Betelgeuse Antares VV Cephei

planets stars universe astronomy solar system science asteroids space Pluto Mercury Mars Venus Earth Neptune Uranus Sun

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