The Right Scale of Things…. Huge Stars!! & Shoot Em Ups.

[ST Dragon]

Just look at that huge star “VY Canis Majoris”, the largest known to man!
That thing is as large (if not larger), than our entire Solar System!
These Stars would look very cool in other shoot em up stages….



I wonder if the fire stage of Life Force / Salamander takes place near to any of these stars.






And as for the binary star system "VV Cephei", it looks very similar to the fire-ice stage of Gaiares!

[ChurchOfSolipsism]

While I appreciate your bringing this to our attention, I can't help correcting your assumption about the size of Canis Majoris in relation to the solar system:

"University of Minnesota professor Roberta M. Humphreys[13] estimates the radius of VY CMa at 1,800 to 2,100 solar radii.[8] To illustrate, if Earth's Sun were replaced by VY Canis Majoris, its diameter might extend to the orbit of Saturn."

Still, this motherfucker is still simply incredibly fucking ridiculously huge.... as everyone else I can't wrap my head around those numbers.

[TrevHead (TVR)]

i love reading a stuff like this but as church just said the vast scale of everything always boggles my mind.

does any1 know roughly how many times bigger that would make Canis Majoris bigger then Sol, simple stuff like the pictureabove is really the only way i can get my head around it.

[Acid King]

Still, this motherfucker is still simply incredibly fucking ridiculously huge.... as everyone else I can't wrap my head around those numbers.

Agreed. Nothing like science to make you feel uselessly insignificant.

[t0yrobo]

Still, this motherfucker is still simply incredibly fucking ridiculously huge.... as everyone else I can't wrap my head around those numbers.

Agreed. Nothing like science to make you feel uselessly insignificant.

Obligatory viewing for the conversation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm0bIuAVmOA

[Momijitsuki]

Still, this motherfucker is still simply incredibly fucking ridiculously huge.... as everyone else I can't wrap my head around those numbers.

Agreed. Nothing like science to make you feel uselessly insignificant.

Obligatory viewing for the conversation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wm0bIuAVmOA

Whoa, that was a trip @_@ Nothing like this conversation to make you feel smaller than a speck of dust! ._.

For the sake of discussion, it only makes you feel smaller when you consider the concept of time, in which we live for a century or less, as opposed to billions of years.

[fog]

Yeah I don't think I got the scale of the Sun in Echoes quite right.

Seeing the size of these things really does mess with your head, as does looking at stuff at the other end of the scale. Sub atomic particles. Whoa.

[Ruldra]

Last year I made a thread about the size of planets and suns. It gives you a better idea of how big stars really are.

http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=20314

[TodayIsForgotten]

Jesus. Let's just say we should be thankful we live on earth. Could you imagine if earth were 288,194 x bigger? Traveling from New Jersey to California would take...a life-time. Let alone Asia or Australia or...zZz

[BrightSuzaku]

Shoot, man.

So, what about the fire dragon things shooting out of stars (and aiming rather poorly at Vic)? What does that make them? The Prominence of Doom?

[Super Laydock]

Nothing like science to make you feel uselessly insignificant.

Which, basically we are in the grand scale of things.
Science is just a window to the facts.

Nice presentation to put stuff in perspective indeed.