Great gif that shows how small earth is compared to everything else in space

[nt og]

Even God can't create this.

 

[ryda421]

 

[drunken cow]

When VY Canis Majoris dies, it will die as a core-collapse supernova or even a hyper-nova depending on it's mass and composition. It's huge size does not necessarily mean it will explode as a hyper-nova and give rise to a gamma ray burst when some or all of the star becomes a black hole. Even so, it's much more likely to explode as a core-collapse supernova that will produce a neutron star or a black hole depending on what happens when it's core is converted into iron. When that happens, the outer layers will initially be ejected back into space at speeds of 5,000 miles per second or more, and the wreckage will outshine the entire galaxy for weeks or months. If VY Canis Majoris had any planets, they would be at the minimum ejected into space due to the sudden loss of 90 percent or more of the star's mass back to space. Their atmospheres and surface water if present would be flash boiled away into space, and likely their surfaces would melt from being hit with billions of times more energy than they received before. It's indeed possible they would simply be vaporized in the explosion. If there are any life bearing planets within a few light years of VY Canis Majoris when it blows, all life would be destroyed. Any inhabited planets within 30 or 50 light years of the explosion will either be sterilized or suffer severe mass extinctions due to the massive blast of gamma and x-rays disrupting the ozone layer. Dangerous, even deadly doses of radiation will kill or injure any complex, multi-cellular life forms but single cell microbes can withstand radiation fields that would instantly kill humans and most other higher forms of life. Star systems farther away would be exposed to much more ionizing radiation and cosmic rays, which would induce mutations and leave traces in the soil, ice sheets and oceans, but would not trigger wide spread die offs of species wholesale. From several hundred light years away, VY Canis Majoris' demise would be no threat to a habitable planet, but a bonanza for astronomers interested in the lives and deaths of stars and how they made our own existence possible. If however, VY Canis Majoris is massive enough and has the right composition to explode as a hyper-nova, the resulting gamma ray burst will destroy life on planets caught in the jets spat out by the newly born black hole thousands of light years away. These jets form along the doomed star's axis of rotation, and are highly focused like laser beams. If an inhabited planet is not in the way, it would survive unharmed unless it was in close proximity to the supernova. A planet or life on that planet caught in the jet is doomed. Planets within a 100 light years would melt or vaporize from the jet's onslaught, which are composed of high energy plasma moving at nearly the speed of light.They are nature's ultimate death ray, much like the Death Star out of the Star Wars movies.

 

[chokeonsmoke]

 

[brettthejett]

You guys need to understand that these are so far away, that they probably dont even exist any more.
We can see them...but only because it take 100 frickin trillion years to reach us haha

 

[rexanglorum]

MOSTHATED770 wrote:

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just makes me think about how noone will ever go to those planets lol

I am no astronomer but as soon as I learned a bit about the dimensions of space, it struck me as crazy that in Star Wars and other Sci Fifilms they move across a galaxy or between galaxies by traveling at light speed. All issue of time being dramatically different at light speed aside, lightspeed travel would only allow for multiyear voyages to nearby solar systems. It would let you move within a solar system very quickly but that is notintergalactic or even interstellar travel.

 

[tmoney85]

imagine catching a flight from one side of jupitor to the other. it would be like a 1 week flight.

 

[no 1 can escape the quad laser]

Humans are made up of around 7 octillion atoms, 7 followed by 27 zeros, so just imagine how many atoms make up vy canis majoris!

 

[man listen]

Originally Posted by brettTHEjett

You guys need to understand that these are so far away, that they probably dont even exist any more.
We can see them...but only because it take 100 frickin trillion years to reach us haha

Kind of like the pony express

 

[creamofdacrops]

Originally Posted by Drunken Cow

When that happens, the outer layers will initially be ejected back into space at speeds of 5,000 miles per second or more, and the wreckage will outshine the entire galaxy for weeks or months.

 

[g to tha t]

 

[eastnewyork80]

and we thought we was doing it

 

[brettthejett]

Originally Posted by eastnewyork80

and we thought we was doing it

 

[kidufc]

if i had dude with the blue +%+$ from watchmen's powers. i would go to that star with a chick and smash.

 

[sekim2detcidda]

How can they determine how bog the other stars actually are?

 

[da doc03]

this *@$@ is insane

 

[food4thgt]

 

[lilstarz07]

i think we are one of the most primitive species in the universe

 

[danikerhino]

Woah $!@!.

 

[million dollar stacks]

man we finna die.

 

[kidufc]

Originally Posted by MILLION DOLLAR STACKS

man we finna die.

choppa suit will save us.

 

[freddypee]

Originally Posted by Yoda

I really find it hard to believe that there's no other life outside of Earth.

Impossible.

 

[million dollar stacks]

Originally Posted by kidUFC

Originally Posted by MILLION DOLLAR STACKS

man we finna die.

choppa suit will save us.

I hope

 

[kidufc]

Originally Posted by MILLION DOLLAR STACKS

Originally Posted by kidUFC

Originally Posted by MILLION DOLLAR STACKS

man we finna die.

choppa suit will save us.

I hope

 

[parada45]

choppa suit will save us.

What where those last ones with numbers in their names?