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5 Sep 2024 01:22:28 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Trivial trigonometry  
From: Warp
Date: 24 Nov 2009 13:29:08
Message: <4b0c25f4@news.povray.org>
Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> By the way, I'm pretty sure stars aren't all that bright. I think it's just 
> because they're large that they seem bright. I.e., per square inch, I don't 
> think they're a lot brighter than what you can build on earth easily. 
> (Brighter than street lights, certainly.)

  I think that getting something to be 6 million times brighter than the
Sun can be pretty hard...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygnus_OB2-12

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                                                          - Warp


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