The Lopper schrieb:
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> Ah, ok. If it does blow, it'll take 5,000 years
> for the light to reach us. But the thing that got
> me was this sentence:
>
> ...light would take more than 8 hours to travel
> around the star's circumference, as opposed to
> 14.5 seconds for the sun.
>
> When you think of how big the Sun is, you begin to
> realise that you are dealing with incomprehendable
> sizes. Awesome.
that is awesome indeed. another figure to compare: distance earth sun = 8 (or 6, not 100% sure) lightminutes
used to be GPGSL's Nick Heidfeld