Two Heftiest Stars Found in Milky Way

Discovery News ^ | 6/7/07 | Larry O'Hanlon

[Reaganesque]

Hefty? Noooo! They’re just big boned!

[Red Badger]

Michael and Rosie?........

[SoCal Pubbie]

Rosie O’Donnell and Michael Moore?

[dfwgator]

Damn, you got to be fast here on FR.

[Tanniker Smith]

ooooh, beaten by 25 seconds.

[SoCal Pubbie]

Yeah, but I left no doubt I wasn't taking about Michael Jackson and Rosie Perez.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

Dude, I was like, another Rosie O'Donnell thread?

[Deguello]

"discovered in the southern Milky Way galaxy"

There's a North/South in our Galaxy? The Universe too?

[Turbopilot]

merely the sixth element out of more than two hundred and sixty

Last I checked there were 117 discovered/synthesized elements. Where the heck did "more than 260" come from?

[LibWhacker]

"but its brothers and sisters are spread out over the galaxy now."

Hmmm... I wonder if there is any hope of ever being able to identify them?... Say, a thousand years from now when we have a complete census of all the stars in the Milky Way?

[LibWhacker]

Yup, stay out of SE Milky Way. Bad neighborhood. ;-)

[gimme1ibertee]

LOLOL!!! took the words right outta my mouth!

[LibWhacker]

Good catch. I don’t know... Are they including the anti-elements?

[rednesss]

That certainly seems counter-intuitive. More “fuel” equals shorter life???? Hmmmmm.

[gimme1ibertee]

“..and both break the record — 83 times the sun’s mass — for the most massive stars found to date.”

....Yep,definitely Rosie and Michael.

[twonie]

You sure do have to be fast! But anyway the sentiment got expressed, so all is not lost!

[KarlInOhio]

That certainly seems counter-intuitive. More “fuel” equals shorter life???? Hmmmmm.

More fuel = burns much, much, much faster.

Although it is fission rather than fusion you can compare it to having some U-235. A little bit will just toss out some radiation and last for millions of years. Add more and it gets more radioactive as spontanious splitting of the atoms cause others to split which will use up the uranium faster. Add some more and it only lasts for a fraction of a second before it blows up.

[SlowBoat407]

That certainly seems counter-intuitive. More “fuel” equals shorter life???? Hmmmmm.

More fuel = more mass = bigger reaction = higher outward pressure countering gravitational force keeping the whole thing in a nice, neat ball and the furnace going. When that pressure overcomes the gravity, the outer shell is blown away, or the whole magillah starts expanding until equilibrium is reached again. Blast furnace needs more fuel than a campfire to keep going for the same amount of time.

[lexington minuteman 1775]

Rosie and late Momma Cass and a large sandwich orbiting around both.