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Old 08-06-2010, 06:50 PM
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How about LBV1806-20. Nice, quiet little star....150 times the diameter of the Sun and 200 times as massive 4-40 million times brighter, depending on the mood it's in

Or larger still, some of the old Pop III stars....some of them may have been as much a 1000 times as massive as the Sun!! 1 billion times as luminous!!. That's about 22.5 magnitudes brighter than the Sun, meaning the absolute magnitude of one of those stars (when they existed) was around -17, all of the time. In other words they shone constantly about as brightly as what a supernova shines, these days!!.

To put that into perspective, the Earth could orbit one of those stars from nearly 3 light years away and still get about the same amount of light as it does from the Sun
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