Astronomers detect 'Monster Star'

BBC ^ | July 21st, 2010

[calex59]

You know, it happens to a lot of people. You get old and your metabolism goes to he** and you get fat. She was a babe in her day and she was a fair actress. Hopefully you will never balloon out and have people making snide comments about you.

[Jim W N]

I think this is actually the Lord on a brief stopover on his way to earth...
Why?

Maybe for lunch...

[Deaf Smith]

I got an e-mail this week claiming that Mars will be closest to Earth (34,649,589 miles) than has been in the past 60k years and that this will not happen again until the year 2287.

That at the end of August, when it rises out of the East will be almost as bright as the Moon and very large.

[Syntyr]

“It would be a good band name.”

I thought of a really good band name yesterday and promptly forgot it! I knew I would!

[pogo101]

Astronomers detect 'Monster Star'

It's been named "Bieber" and is expected to burn out in two years.

[SuziQ]

That’s no moon, it’s a Space Station!!

[SuziQ]

*snort* That was my first thought, which I posted before I saw yours!

[Secret Agent Man]

What’s the deal with combing hair forward like this?

Trying to do the old man combover while young, so when the hair goes it will be less noticeable? No man has ever gotten away with it yet.

[ApplegateRanch]

That, again?!? There truly is no killing of crud on the interwebs; it just keeps perpetually circling the bowl, without ever going down the drain.

[dusttoyou]

No one can ever say we don’t feed our women well.

[JRios1968]

[Deaf Smith]

I guess I missed it. ~}

[rustyboots]

How about a warning next time??? I almost spewed on the keyboard!! Is it human?

[JRios1968]

Oopsy...it’s a Hutt

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

Image courtesy M. Kornmesser, ESO

and while we're at it:

Sun (Sol), Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Earth, Venus, Mars, Mercury...

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Humbling.

[Mmogamer]

This is the largest star they have found so far
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_star

Not by mass but how big around it is... its.. well really big.