SHOOTING STARS đ
Debunk teachers taught
Our teachers told us the Sun is the biggest shining star up there, so they taught us âtwinkle twinkle "LITTLE" starâ...right? Well, I sang that rhyme too but will never to my kids.
( Chill Iâll explain why)
While growing up i wanted to become everything intriguing and fascinating, anything with the power of taking me on a journey to Wonderland and back. Astrology wasnât really on my A list, but sure was one of those âChumpsâ that left me wondering what shape the universe bears. But who really cared what lies beyond the deep blue skies, so long as we know the nine planets we are cool right? (sometimes i forget which is which and wonder how Mars got that ring round itđ)
I mean does that fetch the Benjaminâs? Truth be told, i was avoiding Quantum Physics. Gosh! God knows i wonât embarrass my generation abeg. Anyways letâs leave that talk.
The Sun has always been a poem of impenetrable obscurity to many. Little wonder the nine planets encircles in awe, trembling and in fear of incurring itâs wrath. (But trust Earth na, disobedient shyde đ Sun don punish am tire with heat)
As gigantic as the sun is, there are nuclear bodies far bigger than it is, which could be referred to as âstars" and the biggest of them all is âVY Canis Majoris.â The largest shinning star ever discovered.
Iâll save you details of how I discovered because I prefer keeping my postâs short, (but you know Wiki right?)
I havenât told you why I scribbled this. lâm out to make two points.
1) To let you know youâre infinitely too little
2) Youâre infinitely too damn insignificant
3) Youâre ceaselessly too little not to acknowledge the existence of God.
(I said two points right? My bad)
So sorry i wonât đ
This red hyper giant star is 2,000 times wider than the sun and 9.3 billions of our sun can fit inside it. 155,000 times size the earth & Thatâs 3 quadrillion 729 trillion Earths can fit into it. A star this size, one can wonder why donât we see it at night asides Sirius the brightest night star in our galaxy? Well Canis Majoris is believed to be 42,000 light years from our galaxy. A light year is used when expressing distances to stars & which is 6trillion miles (10 trillion kilometers). click Here to know more about light years
This implies it took this star 42,000 light years for it to be seen from our galaxy; the Milky Way. It is still not visible to the naked eye and can only be seen with the help of a small telescope.
(Getting the point?)đ
Canis Majoris lies in its galaxy called "Canis Major Dwarf Galaxyâ, which is the closest neighboring galaxy to our galaxy. This small galaxy contains a relatively high percent of red hyper giant stars & has billions of it.
If you were magically transported to Canis Majoris on a passenger airplane traveling along the surface at an average cruising speed of 559 mph (900km/h) it would take over 1,100 years to complete one circuit because its radii is 19,758 billion kilometers in size.
Okay I promise, no more physics here
Now imagine the earth as an un-popped popcorn & the sun a basketball, it means Canis Majoris will approximately be the height of two Twin Towers, or combine two Mount Everest and place a gulf ball at the top.
(shey you get?)
BRIGHTEST LIGHT
Canis Majoris is also the most luminous star ever known. Luminosity is the measure of the total amount of light energy put out by a star.
This star is 430,000 times more luminous than the sun. This means it puts out 430,000 more light energy. Starâs shine cos they convert fuel to energyâŚ
(letâs leave that line so i wont lose you.)
If the sun is replaced with Canis Majoris it would engulf all the planets in the solar system to Saturn. We would not see it as well because Earth would be inside it. There would be no night and Earth would be charged with itâs energy.
I wish to stop here but leaving you halfway curious does a little or no good to my satisfactionâ now a little pry â remember, I said i am out to achieve 2 points right? But at this point iâm wondering if iâm hitting any at all.
DYING STAR
It is said that this star is slowly nearing its death and itâs final death will create a black hole which could be a red flag to Earth. Iâll tell you a little about what may happen if this star passes then iâll end this.
Canis Majoris has already shed over half of its original mass. It is in the final throes of death and could explode at literally, any time. If it exploded today, some 42,000 light years away, the blast wave would slam into the surrounding envelope of material with a velocity of thousands of kilometers per second and produce what is known as a âSupernovaâ The end of this star will come as a violent supernova explosion, which will happen, cosmologically speaking, very soon. Maybe in a thousand years or, maybe, in a few hundred thousand. When this star dies the bright explosion will be viewable from Earth. Our descendants will attend a good show and see VY Canis Majoris illuminate the sky. (I still donât want to lose you so iâll dropped a video here for more on that)
If this is just the size of a star close to our galaxy then what lies beneath âSloan Great Wall' the least seen galaxy from ours? Aliens? Now Iâve gotten @chloemaxxi attention I think
(maybe Iâll tell you next time)
See me see wahala o! đ I almost attempted calculating how many humans could fit into this star but, Naaa! I wont. thatâs like counting sand in the Sahara
(I believe by now youâre beginning to score one or two points, even if itâs not any of the aforementioned points, cos I didnât write this in vain oo đ)
Weâre nothing near this star in mass yet our God who created this hyper giant illuminous star DWELLS in you and I and inhabits our worship, what a God!!!
This is just a fraction of the big picture. Psalms 8:3-9 explains it all
TheArtPreacher
Pardon me if this post didnât really make any sense to you. Read it again if you can, or better still wait for my serious post.
Thank you Marshal Paul and @chloemaxxi for proof reading this.
