4 Mind-Blowing Things About Stars

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4 Mind-Blowing Things About Stars is a blog post by Tim Urban in the blog Wait But Why.
The article attempts to jolt readers out of a narrow focus on mundane daily concerns by urging them to contemplate the astonishing vastness of the universe. It compares ignoring the cosmos to a bacterium living in a fingernail ignoring the larger world around it. Mind-boggling facts are provided to illustrate just how unfathomably huge the universe is. There are estimated to be between 10^22 to 10^24 stars, or around 100 sextillion stars, in the observable universe alone. For comparison, there are only about 7.5 quintillion grains of sand on all the beaches of Earth. Our own Milky Way galaxy contains between 100-400 billion stars and has a diameter of 100,000 light years – meaning light takes 100,000 years to traverse it. The article zooms in on different types of stars, like the red hypergiants that are over 1000 times bigger than our sun. One example, VY Canis Majoris, is so large that 1,420 of our suns could fit inside it. On the other end of the spectrum are neutron stars, which pack the mass of a million Earths into a tiny sphere just 24 kilometers wide, the result of a gravitational collapse. By presenting facts that reveal the sheer scope and diversity of stars in the cosmos, the article provides perspective on how vast the universe is compared to a human lifetime and aims to pull readers' minds beyond their immediate surroundings.
== Full post ==
https://waitbutwhy.com/2013/11/4-mind-blowing-things-about-stars.html
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