▲ 776 ▼ Know your place (reddthat.com) submitted 1 year ago by LadyButterfly@reddthat.com to c/science_memes@mander.xyz 95 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 50 points 1 year ago* (4 children) Let me introduce you to UY Scuti. permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Engywuck@lemmy.zip 33 points 1 year ago Upvoted for linking Wikipedia and not some shitty YT video. permalink fedilink source parent [–] CMDR_Horn@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago You can't get to this star in Elite Dangerous, but you can get to VY Canis Majoris which is 1420 radii permalink fedilink source parent [–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 child) what is the minimum and maximum size of a star? i.e. what is the minimum mass to ignite hydrogen fusion or whatever generates heat, and what is the maximum size where it just collapses into a black hole? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago The minimum is about 80 Jupiter Masses. Smaller than that and you can't start fusing. Maximum size is harder to answer. It's determined by the Eddington Limit. Which describes the luminosity at which radiation pressure is enough to overcome gravity for a certain mass. It's thought that the maximum mass of a star is somewhere around 150 solar masses, but there's some evidence to contradict this, as we've seen a handful of very old stars with masses or luminosities higher than they should be. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Engywuck@lemmy.zip 33 points 1 year ago Upvoted for linking Wikipedia and not some shitty YT video. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] CMDR_Horn@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago You can't get to this star in Elite Dangerous, but you can get to VY Canis Majoris which is 1420 radii permalink fedilink source parent
[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 child) what is the minimum and maximum size of a star? i.e. what is the minimum mass to ignite hydrogen fusion or whatever generates heat, and what is the maximum size where it just collapses into a black hole? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago The minimum is about 80 Jupiter Masses. Smaller than that and you can't start fusing. Maximum size is harder to answer. It's determined by the Eddington Limit. Which describes the luminosity at which radiation pressure is enough to overcome gravity for a certain mass. It's thought that the maximum mass of a star is somewhere around 150 solar masses, but there's some evidence to contradict this, as we've seen a handful of very old stars with masses or luminosities higher than they should be. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago The minimum is about 80 Jupiter Masses. Smaller than that and you can't start fusing. Maximum size is harder to answer. It's determined by the Eddington Limit. Which describes the luminosity at which radiation pressure is enough to overcome gravity for a certain mass. It's thought that the maximum mass of a star is somewhere around 150 solar masses, but there's some evidence to contradict this, as we've seen a handful of very old stars with masses or luminosities higher than they should be. permalink fedilink source parent