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Old 01-21-2011, 04:20 PM   #34
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Originally Posted by evman150 View Post


If something "appeared" tens of millions of times brighter than the sun in our sky, we would all be insta-dead.
I think what they mean is it would get tens of millions times brighter than our sun if we were the same distance from it..it already is probably a few hundred times brighter than our sun due to it's size. When a massive star goes supernova it can get brighter than the whole galaxy it came from.
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