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VY Canis Majoris
This week we’re going to talk about famous stars. But not those boring human ones you read about in People magazine. No, we’re talking about those hot balls of plasma across the distant Universe. The close ones, the bright ones, the massive ones, the giant ones. Let’s get to know some famous stars.
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Shownotes
- MOST FAMOUS: Polaris — UIUC
- How to find Polaris — GSFC
- Misconceptions about the North Star (“Constant as the North Star” — Shakespeare)
- Cepheid Variable stars
- MOST POWERFUL: Eta Carinae — APOD
- Hypernova — Wiki
- BRIGHTEST (But not most luminous): Sirius
- Binary Stars
- BIGGEST: VY Canis Majoris
- Red Supergiants — GSU
- Video: Biggest Stars in the Universe
- SMALLEST: Ogle TR-122b — Universe Today
- Red Dwarf Stars
- SMALLEST STAR THAT IS NOT A RED DWARF: White Dwarf Stars
- CLOSEST: Proxima Centauri — AAO
- Alpha Centauri System — APOD
- MOST LIKELY TO EXPLODE: Betelgeuse and Eta Carinae
- Helix Nebula — HubbleSite
- Crab Nebula
- 2012 Stupidity — Universe Today
- FASTEST MOVING: RX J0822-4300 — Chandra
- Neutron Stars
- FIRST STAR FOUND TO HAVE A PLANET: 51 Pegasus
- Extra Solar Planets — Planet Quest
- FIRST STAR TO FOUND TO HAVE PLANETARY SYSTEM: PSR B1257+12
- Pulsar
- OTHER FAMOUS STARS FROM SCIENCE FICTION:
- Wolf 359
- The Battle of Wolf 359 on Star Trek (Resistance is futile; You will be assimilated)
- Epsilon Eridani
- a.k.a. Vulcan
- McDonald Observatory
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