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[camwyn]

The following vid is not entirely correct- a larger star than VY Canis Majoris has been discovered- but otherwise...

Well, let's just say that there are days when closing my eyes and walking through this sequence helps keep things in general, good and bad alike, in perspective.

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[silveraspen]

Thank you for this.

[moofoot.livejournal.com]

That's awesome, yet it's also vaguely unsettling and I'm not sure why.

[camwyn]

The music from The Black Hole or Alien is kind of creepy no matter how you slice it. That may be part of it. I've seen another version of a similar sequence that's just an animated .GIF, no sound or anything. Not sure if it'd have the same effect.

And I was wrong- VY Canis Majoris is the largest star known in terms of size. The star I was thinking of, R136a1, is the most massive star in existence; it's equivalent in mass to two hundred and sixty-five of Earth's Sun. VY Canis Majoris isn't nearly as massive, it's just bigger. Light starting from one side of VY Canis Majoris takes eight hours to reach the other side.