Not cameras, but pretty amazing

[Dug]

http://www.rense.com/general72/size.htm

who said size is important?

[Geoff]

Very cool dug

[big pix]

very deep dug........

[Dug]

it makes the things we fight about pretty stupid.

Imagine if we put that amount of money and effort into exploration and science rather than blowing people up.

Na it'll never happen

[Alpha_7]

Who said Size is important, and Dug links to photos of balls, celestial balls, but balls all the same

This kind of reminds me of what Google Universe would be like, where you can just keep zooming in and in and in. If you take it a lot further and resolve the earth back to a single atom, I can't begin to calculate the size difference to Antares. Mind Boggling.
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[Laurie]

youd think something that size would be visible to the naked eye.
obviously not.
very impressive. pitty about the shit quality of the images a high res image would be awesome

[Greg B]

This was doing the email rounds a short while back, absolutey sensational. Scale in the universe really pushes understanding. That Antares, one big mo-fo, that's for sure.

Extremely large things and extremely small things are fascinating. That last image has Antares looking HUGE and the sun less than one pixel. Just imagine the degree of difference between a particle (a gazillion times smaller than the sun) and Antares!!

There are roughly 10^72 particles in the universe, that is a 1 with 72 zeros after it. It doesn't seem like enough. A googol is 10^100. More than all the particles in the universe. A very very big number. A googolplex is 10^googol. A breathtakingly large number.

(The googol was named long before the google search engine came into existence. The term was coined in 1938 by nine-year-old Milton Sirotta, nephew of American mathematician Edward Kasner. The first time I heard of it was in the outstanding Carl Sagan series - Cosmos)

[Hlop]

Hell! I knew these facts and sizes from the school astronomy course but have never put them together in my head Visual comparison looks just inpressive

[losfp]

youd think something that size would be visible to the naked eye.
obviously not.

Makes you wonder just how far away the bugger is, eh?

[Greg B]

Antares is 600 light years from earth within our own milky way galaxy. It is a red supergiant, and the 15th brightest object in the sky (excluding the sun and the moon).