Because You Didn't Feel Small Enough Before

[yellowsupra7]

how many years would it take for the earth to rotate around VY Canis Majoris?

[estoesfootbag]

awesome :O

[ThermalHD]

what does that red bubble next to the 360p icon mean/do?

[lmc6506]

Do I have to fix all the mistakes again?

[avegromek]

this isn't right, solar system can't be smaller than even canis majoris (1:21)

[ScottyBoiy]

@avegromek Yes it can. Our solar system is measured from the Sun to the outermost planet, Pluto is about 7.3 billion km (4.5 billion mi) from the sun. But since Pluto is not officially considered a planet anymore, that means the outermost planet is Neptune. Neptune is only approx. 4.5 billion km (2.8 billion mi) from the Sun. To put it all in perspective VY Canis Majoris is about 5.4 billion km (3.4 billion mi) in diameter, meaning it is literally bigger than our solar system.

[avegromek]

@ScottyBoiy not quite sure but i think solar system contains all the stuff (not only the planets) from the sun till to the end of kuiper belt witch is about 40-80 Astronomical units from the sun (neptune is about 30AU).

[ScottyBoiy]

@avegromek Point taken. I'm not too keen on this stuff myself, so maybe you're right. Either way I think we can both agree that Canis Majoris is a tad on the large side.

[Edge0fPain]

The whole universe compared to the part of the universe we can see is like the part of the universe we can see compared to one atom =)

[Sortsdam]

I don't know who in their right mind votes down for this video... it's not even controversial or touchy in any way..... well maybe to the bible nuts, but they don't count. :D

[spike123456791]

Chuck Norris uses VY Canis Majoris as a light bulb

[Insane247714]

O_O

[SoldatSolutrea]

Everyone is talking about how we are smaller than sand haha. We are much bigger than a half grain of sand, and much, much bigger than things on a molecular or anatomic scale, look into it.

[TheRedDash]

we are so inferior ha we all think we are the smartest , strongest , fastest. in reality we aint shit

[SlLENTHlLL]

Are you talking about your mom?

[TheRedDash]

@SlLENTHlLL i think you belong on the gaming forums you bitch ha. mom jokes lmao ! little kids these days

[SlLENTHlLL]

If you weren't talking about you mom, then... maybe yourself, AND your mom, hell, probably your whole family. Right?

[TheRedDash]

@SlLENTHlLL

you make no sense :D why are you commenting me ?????

[Nugwrangler]

@TheRedDash !

[VideoAssassin12]

If these stars were to collide it would.......

(you figure it out :{)

[urborg74]

I've heard it said there are more stars in the universe (that we can perceive) than there are grains of sand on every beach on earth.

[crucialconflict02]

um..we are not even as small as a half grain of sand..

[udhammachao]

Earth is a failed planet, it is the most disgusting and insignificant peace of rock, it deserves to be wiped out from the solar system/milky way

[crucialconflict02]

seek help.

[abdi456001]

how is it failed its the best one other than saturn cause saturn looks awesome

[pikachize]

This video makes me think... ;_;

[Colinthetank]

Its Diameter is larger then the entire orbit of Saturn. So if you stuck this sun in our solar system it would engulf Every planet but Uranus and Neptune (and the giant rock we call Pluto).

[imagfgoober]

vy canis majorus is kinda big but not as big as my dick though :D

[MintyKanesh]

Meh and while the universe is amazingly huge, it doesn't prove anything about intelligent design. Sure it is big, but theres no *plan*, it wasn't *supposed* to turn out like this, it just did through the laws of physics.

The number 10 is bigger than the number 2. That's not proof of god, that's just how it is.

[wizzywow12345]

wow! mind blowing.

[jonbcaliman]

That beast is 4.9 BILLION miles in diameter!!!! NOT circumference, work out that larger # out for yourselves...just the diameter, folks.  Saying there is not an Intelligent Mind, an omniscient Being Who created this is like saying there is no Sun in our solar system. Same diff.

[MintyKanesh]

Your maths is a bit off - it is not 4.9 billion miles in diameter, I presume you took the fact that it's diameter is 2100x that of our sun. Then you did 1/6*pie*2100(power3). That is 4.9 billion - but that means that YN Canis Majoris is 4.9billion times bigger than our sun volume wise, not 4.9 billion miles across.

[urborg74]

I completely fail to see how a floating ball of burning helium and hydrogen proves there's a god. Here's a question for you...WHY would an intelligent creator make this? To what end? For what purpose?

[MondoMedia7]

Revelation 4:11 (Amplified Bible)

11Worthy are You, our Lord and God, to receive the glory and the honor and dominion, for You created all things; by Your will they were [brought into being] and were created.(A)

[urborg74]

That tells us absolutely nothing. I asked "Why" he would create all of this and you replied "He created it." Learn to think instead of just spouting scripture.

[MondoMedia7]

Why not ask Him yourself because it says "seek and you will find , ask and it will be given, knock and it will be opened to you".

You accuse people who believe of "not thinking" and yet you seem afraid to read more. Hmmm.

[urborg74]

You have no idea how much I've asked and received no answer back. I'd wager I've spent far more time thinking about it than you have. I guess that's part of the problem tho, I've been thinking about it instead of just accepting everything out of hand. I see the taint of man's teachings all throughout what is supposed to be divine instruction and eternal Truth. I see countless flaws and lack of insight, the short sightedness of mortality...not divine guidance. I'd expect better from a God.

[MondoMedia7]

good for you.

[urborg74]

Lol, best you can do? I was born and raised in a very religious family, went to church almost every Sunday for over 20 years. I've heard just about everything you could possibly tell me, yet here I am 13 years later...a skeptic. I won't say there isn't a God because I can't prove it, but I will say that if God wants my "loyalty" he's gonna have to prove he's more than just a product of random chance, emotional responses, and the placebo effect.

[MondoMedia7]

at the same time I have heard EVERY crybaby excuse from people who should know better but are shirking their spiritual duties.

to whom much is given much shall be required.

Those who knew to do good and did not do it will be beaten with more stripes than those who never knew in the first place.

[urborg74]

I do good on my own because of my own moral values, not because I believe some spiritual parent is going to spank me for being bad. Of course, some people seem to need that constant "threat" to behave, and if that's what it takes to get them to respect their fellow man, I can't really complain. I am not afraid of dying and meeting a supreme being at all, because if that being is as divine, loving, and all knowing as religions teach, that being will know I did the best I could with what I had.

[Edge0fPain]

@urborg74

The problem is most religious people think that they can earn righteousness by doing good deeds. It's a lie. Why was Jesus sent to die for humanity? Because we can't get it right all the time by relying on ourselves, no matter how hard we try.

[yxrcbszg]

@urborg74 A beautiful answer mate =)

[Nugwrangler]

@MintyKanesh Sorry but VY Cannis Majoris diameter is 3.20 Kilometers across.

[3lyle3]

thanks for the pres. Brad. have enjoyed it many times over already. :)

[kissmehunni]

Everything about space and the universe amazes me. We are so insignifcant compared to other planets. Styxphobos, i totally agree with you. Thats a very good point to make. Moving on, my feelings towards it all are very bittersweet. Its is absolutely amazing and it all intrigues me, but no doubt in my lifetime, i will never know of major discoveries. Gosh, we would never even be able to make it to pluto in the time any of us have left! Its such a shame :(

[StyxPhobos]

The sad thing is that when you realise how insignificant we are, and that we only have each other, you would hope that we would treat each other with more respect.

Some astronauts have fully realised this in the flesh, and as a result have felt a deep sense of love for humanity , because they realise how much we need each other.

[daydodog]

@StyxPhobos on the other hand, the rest of the universe dosn't care what we do to each other

[Nugwrangler]

@StyxPhobos We're actually significent. Liar comment!

[Notfromthisworld7]

@Nugwrangler Only to this planet.

If we were to all die tomorrow, this planet would the only thing to give us proof that we were even here, and our satellites.

We haven't even made a Small footprint on the universe.

[Nugwrangler]

@Notfromthisworld7 Well... not outside our solar system, for sure :)

[3Drives]

all people who want war should see this video

[3lyle3]

...nevermind...duh!  credits.

[3lyle3]

Just mind-blowing. You cant even possibly imagine how big that is. Unreal to think that it would take a beam of light over 7 HOURS to make one trip around VY's equator.

btw...whats the soundtrack? I like.

[cmarcallen]

And to think, this is only the biggest star we've found. There have to be others even bigger. Perhaps in another galaxy. Thank God we are 5,000 light years from it because I don't want to be anywhere near when it goes hypernova. That will be an explosion with a force beyond what we can comprehend.

[ScionT2B]

Thats some Bullsh!t

[Dpoze]

I don't know, but i thought every star once it dies, expands, then (sorry for the lack of any good literature) goes really small, then turns into a black hole. Something along the lines of that...:o

[voidbloodyvoid]

nope. only stars that are big enough can turn into a black hole. it takes quite a bit of mass to create infinate density. and not all big stars collaps on themselves. some fly apart. and i am certian we have no idea what other number of intresting things hapen to stars. there are nutron stars that are stars that have colapsed on themselves, so that a teaspoon of what is left weighs trillions of tons, and they rotate sending out a beam of radiation like a light on a record player...

[sneebymcbob]

because, of course, record players send out beams of radiation.

...

sorry, i just felt like saying something. and this is five months later... oh well. i thought it would be a good bit of sarcasm. mister, eh.... voidbloodyvoid. that's a name that'll cheer you up on a gray day. (wtf? gray day...? whatever)

[yasmindiamondZ]

GOD!

[flectz]

theres gotta be other lifeforms out there.... what are the chances of us being the only living things in a universe so huge

[NTYW23]

If it was only us, that would be one HUGE waste of space. The chances of there bieng other life forms has to be 100%.

[Dpoze]

Even is 3 billion years or so when our sun reaches it end, and expands engulfing the inner planets, will it still not reach even the size of the next largest star or so, imagine the size of VY canis majoris when it expands, beyond total belief, when I come across something like this so unbeliveable tears are almost brung to my eyes. LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

[EGLchan]

hasn't canis majoris expanded to its limit already?

[ozyboyz2]

so if our sun was the size of a pixel how big would that make VY Canis Majoris?? and can anyone c our sun in that last picture?

[im2nttolast]

by the power of Zeus that thing is fuckin big

[possumwee]

Haha damn straight

[InfinitePlayz]

The suns to VY is just like ...Hi...

[xAstronomy]

Lmao :lol:

[buddy39914]

wtf imagine if Vy canis majoris was our sun

[InfinitePlayz]

We'd be inside of the thing! Its just dang big!

[hiphopisntacrime]

Wikipedia VV Cephei for Pete's sake

[briano0600]

Why for Pete's sake? Why isn't it charlie or bil or jim? Why is it always fucking Pete's sake? Don't you think Pete gets tired of that shit...come on man ...leave Pete alone

[hiphopisntacrime]

for the sake of pete

[NarleyDude07]

lmao !!!

[windless]

None of those are phrases. How about the old phrase "By George" then? Like "Chicken By George"!

[hiphopisntacrime]

by george sounds like a 1950s afterschool special, gee golly

[IronMaidenOfDeath]

No, its 1900 times bigger. Little more.

[hiphopisntacrime]

VV Cephei A's mass estimated from its orbital motion is about 100 solar masses, but its luminosity suggests a mass 25-40 solar masses.

[vainprop]

you're all mistaken: i'm the center of the universe

[nozic11111]

OMG! Is that biggest star in our galaxy or in the universe known by man?

[GreatMaster7]

In the universe so far..

[nozic11111]

Damn... Sun is big but compared to Canis Majoris... I can't even see it!

[GreatMaster7]

I know Imagine the explosion...

[nozic11111]

Yeah... It would be a super-ultra-hypernova... But I've been reading about Canis Majoris and I found something very interesting: He's pretty cold for a star (about 3500 K) and pretty not-heavy... And you would have to walk over 650.000 years to circle it on equator!

[hamstsorkxxor]

it's not very dense but it has 135 to 200 solar masses so it is about as heavy as a star get.

[BanditLord66]

yay music is angels and airwaves !!! star of bethlehem!

[Krarof]

VY Canis Mayoris is 2000 times bigger than the sun and cientifics "think" that in less than 1 million of years It will become a Supernova thats interesant dont you think ?

[fiendin281]

it's a little more than 2000 times bigger i think...

[DaniloA26]

Can stars be any more dynamic in size than the largest star known to man? I cannot begin to imagine the day VY Canis Majoris explodes causing a hyper massive supernova O.o With that said, don't f**k with Canis!

[donnington]

I believe Canis is 150 Solar masses (1 solar mass being our Sun). Theoretically, there could be anything up to 500. Weight is the main factor in the ultimate size of stars though, for if the weight exceeds the internal forces keeping the star in shape it'll collapse in on itself.

At least that's what the Discovery Chanel told me.

[Tntmadman530]

its 2000 solar masses

[bprzybysz]

Canis is a red giant, it isn't that much heavy as it seems, cause it's a dying star. I think Eta Carinae is more than 100x heavier than Sun and way heavier than VY CM - and it's still way way smaller.

Red giants are dying stars, which burns (fusing) helium and other heavier particles. They produce way more energy, than stars fusing hydrogen. So it makes them swell into enormous sizes. They are much bigger as they were during its normal life.

[bprzybysz]

Our sun eventually will end as a red giant, it's radius will exceed Mars orbit, burning all inner planets into ashes (they'll melt into plasma).

While our Sun turns into white dwarf which will be size of Earth in the end, VY Canis Majoris will end as Supernova, leaving neutron start or even black hole behind.

Latest researches claim that there are probably no larger starts than 150x mass of

sun, cause any larger star would

[bprzybysz]

(see below in desc order)

cause any larger star would throw away the extra mass, cause it produces way more energy/pressure than can be compensate by gravity effect of such huge star.

[AJKhouse]

i'm not being picky or tryin to be smart but it would be a "hypernova"

[EtherealEclipse]

Rigel looks awesome, man if i could see it in person my life would be complete.

[bitchinbubbles]

man... i used to be obsessed with space... so this doesn't surprise me

[JohnRater]

The earth is a lot smaller compared to the sun than depicted in this film.

[imnislander2]

if the earth were a golfball, you would have to find yourself somewhere on that golfball, then for comparison to VY Canis Majoris, you would have to go to Mt. Everest with that golfball, find urself on the golfball, then unzip ur parka, take out the golfball, and you could fit 7 quadrillion golfballs into mt everest, thats how many earths you could fit into vy canis majoris. got that from louie giglio on the how great is our god tour.

[knockneenpoteen]

holllllllyyyyyyyyyy ssssssshhhhhhhhhiiiiiiiitttttt­tttt!

a bit of intelligent input there.........

[zortech]

Awesome video! I do hope these size comparisons are as close to accurate as can be, because they are amazing to see up against one another.

[genedabest123]

stashthesocks you are crazy lol!!!

[Presidentjh]

Really humbles you.

[MaiL0MaN5]

OH DEAR LORD

[CharlieTeague]

Please tell me the adress.

[silverbones10to1]

number 7,

big as shit planet,

massivly big street,

the universe.

sq19 xxz.

DONT ASK HOW I KNOW...I JUST DO....from silverbones10to1.

[CharlieTeague]

Huuuuuuuu?

[CharlieTeague]

No I meant the web adress to find the images in this video.

It does say you can find them on google image search.

[sheiksubra]

immagin to the entitie that is god all of this means nothing

[sheiksubra]

the milky way is bigger than VY Canis Majoris

Right?

[stashthesocks]

The Milky way is our Galaxy where VYCanis Majoris is, Canis Majoris is a dot compaired to the Miky way

[foofighter2007]

less than a dot, if it were in a pic of the milky way, it would be 1/100000th of a pixel

[Oscar666Ossie]

come on man! The milky way is made out of stars including VY canis majoris. Just like asking if one piece of grass is bigger then the entire field.

[GreatMaster7]

Nope VY Canis Majoris is much bigger than our solar system

[hiphopisntacrime]

If placed in our solar system, the binary system would extend past the orbit of Jupiter and approach that of Saturn.

[foofighter2007]

gobble up saturn too, but still its enormous beyond all reason

[CDZSP]

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[fFORTUNBRAS]

ooh men,,,,we are bacterie...not even that..we are stardust..