A few of my 3D renders on the topic of scale:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Star-sizes.jpg
- http://davidjarvis.ca/dave/gallery/star-sizes/
It is incredible to consider that the largest known stars are the size of the Solar System.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Star-sizes.jpg
- http://davidjarvis.ca/dave/gallery/star-sizes/
It is incredible to consider that the largest known stars are the size of the Solar System.
Niel deGrasse Tyson offered the following feedback:
> If the Sun's Wien's law curve peaked just a few Angstroms over from it's current value would you have illustrated it green? But of course there are no green stars even though the curve peaks there for plenty of them.
> The width of the visible part of the spectrum is so narrow compared with the full-breadth energy distribution of the stars that the fractional difference between one color and the next is quite small. The consequence is that we don't actually see all the colors you show.
- http://www.astro.uvic.ca/~tatum/stellatm.html
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9604b/
- http://herschel.cf.ac.uk/results/betelgeuse
- http://www.historyoftheuniverse.com/starold_2.html
- http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=wien+displacement+law