Here’s something I found on another site talking about this stuff:
“Apparently it would take light 3 hours and 24 minutes to travel from one side of VV Delphi to the other side at its widest point (its diameter), assuming light could travel through the star. In comparison it would take light .13345 seconds to travel from one point of Earth to the other side, at its widest point.”
I don’t know if his/her math is correct, but damn, that’s big. Note that it takes light less than 2 tenths of a second to make it across Earth.
[quote]SWR-1240 wrote:
Someone should make a model of all of those in a museum with Earth about the size of a fist. I wonder how much space they would need to do it.[/quote]
[quote]SWR-1240 wrote:
Here’s something I found on another site talking about this stuff:
“Apparently it would take light 3 hours and 24 minutes to travel from one side of VV Delphi to the other side at its widest point (its diameter), assuming light could travel through the star. In comparison it would take light .13345 seconds to travel from one point of Earth to the other side, at its widest point.”
I don’t know if his/her math is correct, but damn, that’s big. Note that it takes light less than 2 tenths of a second to make it across Earth.[/quote]
And it only takes 8 minutes for light from the sun to reach earth.
[quote]SWR-1240 wrote:
I don’t know if his/her math is correct, but damn, that’s big. Note that it takes light less than 2 tenths of a second to make it across Earth.[/quote]
Math seems ok to me. Light is rather slow when dealing with those kinds of distances.
If you were to put that star in the place of the sun, it would extend past Saturn. I bet there would be little debate about Global Warming.
