Friday 11 April 2014

It's all a matter of scale

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It's all a matter of scale
...if we were the size of galaxies, it wouldn't even be a firecracker.

  #outerspace  

Universe Today originally shared:

Starquake! How Super-Suns Swing, And What It Could Look Like

Much like how an earthquake can teach us about the interior of the Earth, a starquake shows off certain properties about the inside of a star. Studying the closest star we have (the sun) has yielded information about rotation, radius, mass and other properties of stars that are similar to our own. But how do we apply that information to other types of stars?

Read more: http://www.universetoday.com/110895/starquake-how-super-suns-swing-and-what-it-could-look-like/#ixzz2xeO4kLIC

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