"If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other." - Carl Schurz

"The saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished liberty is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while yet there was time." - George Sutherland
"Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe." - Edmund Burke

Monday, January 09, 2006

More from HST

The newest HST press release includes a photograph of a cluster containing fourteen red supergiant stars on the verge of supernova! Each has between 8 and 25 times the mass of our sun (1 solar mass = 2×1030 kg). This means that the total mass of the stars is between 2.2×1032 and 7.0×1032 kg. To put it into perspective, that is roughly equivalent to 4.1×1031 Miraphone 186 Series "S" CC 4-valve tubas! I won't even try to calculate how much it will cost to ship them.

Posted by Jonathan at 1:57 PM

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1 comment:

Anali said...

Where do you get your comparisons? Tubas?!?! Only you...

7:25 PM

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