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Solve : Astronomy?

Answer» For those interested..."Most Massive stars ever"

Oprah, Rosie O' Donnell, Roseanne... oh wait, the topic is Astronomy, nevermind.




regarding the link though, In a strange twist, I actually find it entirely un-amazing... even dissappointing, in some ways. I haven't been heavily into Astronomy since I started working with COMPUTERS (so I don't follow astronomical news like this) and the books I have are pretty ancient (let's just say they are the same age as a College book titled "applied Structured basic"... that is, late 70's or so)

Anyway, the book has a "artists rendering" of the size comparison between the sun and betelguese:



the picture is actually a two-page spread covering the lower half of both pages, but I sort of cut it out for size, which is actually the opposite of what I usually do with two-page SPREADS, which is to enlarge them.


Alright, so we have that... and now today they find the "most massive stars" and we get this picture:




One of those has got to be WRONG! I want to blame the fact that the Betelgeuse one was based on incorrect DATA (it being way older and all), but there is actually a thermal graphing of the star's surface, so I have no idea what to think here.



This is interesting. When I read it I found it hard to believe that the brightest star is 22 million times brighter than the Sun.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEheh1BH34Q&feature=relatedNice video.The second IMAGE is correct. This took me ages to get it sorted on my site and there is still a rogue image around that needs deleting... still looking for it.


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