Top 10 Biggest Star Ever

Below is a Top 10 list of the largest known stars by radius (half of the diameter). The unit of measurement used is the radius of the Sun (approximately 695,500 kilometers, or 432,450 miles). The exact order of this list is not complete yet, nor is it completely well defined: There are sometime high uncertainties in derived values and sizes.The distances to most of these stars are uncertain to differing degrees and this uncertainty affects the size measurements.Several large stars have extended atmospheres, are embedded in mostly opaque dust shells or disks, and pulsate, such that determining their radii is not well defined. Estimates for VV Cephei A are especially uncertain.

1 :- VY Canis Majoris

VY Canis Majoris (VY CMa) is a red hypergiant star located in the constellation Canis Major. At between 1800 and 2100 solar radii (approx 2.7 billion km across or 1.7 billion miles), it is the largest known star and also one of the most luminous known. It is located about 1.5 kiloparsecs (4.6×1016 km) or about 4,900 light years away from Earth. Unlike most hypergiant stars, which occur in either binary or multiple star systems, VY CMa is a single star. It is categorized as a semiregular variable and has an estimated period of 2000 days

2 :- VV Cephei A

VV Cephei, also known as HD 208816, is an eclipsing binary star system located in the constellation Cepheus, At between 1,600–1,900 solar radii approximately 2,400 light years from Earth.

A red hypergiant fills the system's Roche lobe when closest to its companion blue star, the latter appearing to be on the main sequence. Matter flows from the red hypergiant onto the blue companion.

3 :- Mu Cephei

Mu Cephei also known as Herschel 's Garnet Star, is a red super giant star in the constellation Cepheus. At 1,550 solar radii It is one of the largest and most luminous stars known in the Milky Way. It appears garnet red and is given the spectral class of M2Ia.

4 :- WOH G64

WOH G64 is a red hypergiant in the Large Magellanic Cloud. With 2000 times the radius of the Sun . The size of WOH G64 At 1,540 solar radii is estimated at 2,785,000,000 km.

5 :- V354 Cephei

V354 Cephei is a red hypergiant star (pulsating variable star) located within the Milky Way. It is located approximately 9,000 light-years away from our Sun and is currently considered the fifth largest known star, with a radius estimate of 1520 times that of the Sun, or 1,057,160,000 km. Assuming the size estimate is correct, if it were placed in the center of our Solar System, it would extend to 7 AU (between the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn).

6 :- RW Cephei

RW Cephei is an M-class red hypergiant star in the constellation Cepheus. Six of the largest stars known, RW Cephei is estimated at 1,260–1,610 solar radii. RW Cephei, while nearly as large as the orbit of Jupiter, is not as large as other stars in the constellation of Cephus, namely V354 Cephei and VV Cephei A.

7 :- KW Sagittarii

KW Sagittarii is a red hypergiant, It is located approximately between 9,000-13,000 light-years away from our Sun. It is 1460 solar diameters, in fact Seven of the largest known stars, its luminosity is 370,000 times the Sun's. It is located in the constellation Sagittarius.

8 :- KY Cygni

KY Cygni is a red Super Giant star (spectral class M3m) located in the constellation Cygnus. It is Eight of the largest stars known, at about 1,420 times the Sun's diameter, and is also one of the most luminous, with about 300,000 times the Sun's luminosity. It is approximately 5,200 light-years away.

9 :- Betelgeuse (Alpha Orionis)

Betelgeuse is a semiregular variable star whose apparent magnitude ranges between 0.2 and 1.2, the most for any first magnitude star. It is the ninth brightest star in the night sky located around 640 light-years from Earth. Although given the Bayer designation Alpha Orionis (α Orionis / α Ori), Betelgeuse is but the second brightest star in the constellation Orion, outshone by Rigel (Beta Orionis) almost all the time. The star marks the upper right vertex of the Winter Triangle and center of the Winter Hexagon.

Classified as a red Super Giant, Betelgeuse is one of the largest and most luminous stars known. For comparison, if the star were at the center of our solar system its surface would extend past the orbit of Jupiter, wholly engulfing Mercury, Venus, the Earth and Mars. The angular diameter of Betelgeuse was first measured in 1920–1921 by Albert Abraham Michelson and Francis G. Pease using the 100 in (2.5 m) John D. Hooker astronomical interferometer telescope atop Mount Wilson Observatory.

Astronomers believe Betelgeuse is only 10 million years old, but has evolved rapidly because of its high mass. Due to its age, Betelgeuse is expected to explode as a supernova, possibly within the next millennium.

10 :- Antares (Alpha Scorpii)

Antares is a red Super Giant star in the Milky Way galaxy and the sixteenth brightest star in the nighttime sky (sometimes listed as fifteenth brightest, if the two brighter components of the Capella quadruple star system are counted as one star). Along with Aldebaran, Spica, and Regulus it is one of the four brightest stars near the ecliptic. Antares is a slow variable star with an average magnitude of +1.09.

7 Extraordinary Drinking Glasses | Designed Creative Glassware

If you are like me you are sick of drinking out of he same boring glass. Wouldn't you rather enjoy your favorite beverage from one of these cool glasses? Here are seven cool glasses

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14 Strange Candles Designs | Candles smell like flowers

The don't all have to smell like flowers and come in a jar, or in tube form; some candles can look pretty cool. Here are 14 examples:

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World's Largest Lederhosen Record

If you're a larger gentleman Lederhosen , it can sometimes be hard finding a decent pair of Lederhosen that fit properly. Fortunately, one Austrian lederhosen maker has created a pair that you should be able to fit in comfortably.

Tailor Walter Sinnhofer is claiming a new world record for producing the world's largest pair of the traditional leather shorts.

The lederhosen in question are over 15ft long and four yards wide, and took Sinnhofer two months to cut and stitch from 77 square yards of cow hide. They weigh a hefty 50kg.

Now Sinnhofer of Henndorf, Austria, is hoping that Guinness World Records will officially Recognise his achievement in the field of massive lederhosen manufacture and declare them the world's largest pair.

He already has form in the record-breaking lederhosen game, as five years ago Guinness awarded him the record for producing the smallest pair of lederhosen, which were just 38 millimeters long.

Source :- Metro

Telenoid R1 Robot

World's Creepiest Telenoid R1 Robot Japanese Inventor develops the bald, Legless

Its pale torso is about the size of a small child, it has no legs and just stumps for arms.

For a man who has made his life's work coming up with increasingly creepy robots, Hiroshi Ishiguro has really outdone himself this time.

The Japanese roboticist has just unveiled his latest creation - a strange robotic creature called the Telenoid R1.

Ishiguro has, in the past, tried to exactly replicate living humans and once developed an eerie robot replica of himself that he named Geminoid HI-1.

He also came up with a terrifyingly lifelike female robot called the Gemnoid F.

But the new Telenoid is something of a departure for the eccentric inventor.

Ishiguro designed the Telenoid R1 to be a robot that could appear like many different ages and that is easily transportable.

It is intended to be used as a communication device so that people can 'chat' from long distances: the robot is supposed to be able toe transmit the presence' of a person from a distant place.

To operate, the user must sit at a computer with a webcam that tracks the user's movements and captures their voice.

Actuator's in the robot's body help it to move in a realistic way.

These movements are then mimicked by the Telenoid which is sitting with the message's recipient.

The Telenoid R1 will be demonstrated at this year's Ars Electronica festival in Linz, Austria.

Ishiguro says: 'The unique appearance may be eerie when we first see it. However, once we communicate with others by using the telenoid, we can adapt to it.

'If a friend speaks from the telenoid, we can imagine the friend’s face on the telenoid’s face.

'If we embrace it, we have the feeling, that we embrace the friend.'

A commercial version of the Telenoid will go on sale later this year for about £5,000.

How to make own hoop earrings -elegant and expensive

Do you recognize these? We discovered them only recently, in the notions department at Mood.


They're boning. No, that's confusing. I mean, they aren't boning anything, that's what they're called. This woven steel version is the modern day equivalent of whalebone, used in corsets and such. Anyway, aren't they intricate? Like tiny, elaborate chain maile.

After a little experimentation we discovered I really enjoyed boning. I made these hoop earrings:


Cool, no? I think they look elegant and expensive, just unadorned like that.

But who could resist adding color and dangles? Not I!


Now look what happens if you flatten the mesh sideways...


Cool again!

The flattened shape also makes a really pretty pendant.



Such an Beautiful hoop earrings!

Go ahead, try boning in the privacy of your own home. I am pretty sure you will enjoy it as much as I did.


And, as a rabid Project Runway fan, I simply cannot resist signing off with this...

(Said in Tim Gunn voice) "Thank you, Mood!"



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27 Sickest Things You've Done To Save Money

27. I'd save the excess milk from my cereal in the morning to be used the next day (and maybe the next).

26. Called Fast Food 800 #'s to complain about their horrible dining experience and got free meals

25. Flipping your underwear inside out instead of doing laundry

24. The sickest thing I've ever done to save money was eat bits of other peoples' lunches that they left behind at one of my old jobs several years ago.

23. I was in school and didn't have health insurance. I got this nasty mole (one of those dangly ones) on my NOSE and couldn't afford to get it taken off. So I iced it and cut it off with an Xacto blade that I had sterilized with alcohol. There was lots of bleeding but it worked. And then it came back (!!) and I had to do it again. This time it didn't come back. It's amazing what a poor girl will do for vanity.

22. Dish soap instead of shampoo

21. Used to dig through the butts in my car's ashtray when I was out of smokes.

20. Turned to eating Mac 'n cheese..... The catch was that there were tiny bugs in it. So I took a strainer and the bugs went though, while the noodles were just fine. Yeah, that was a bad time in my life. I was so poor I couldn't afford to throw away a box of Mac N cheese.

19. I've seen guys who had no cash for laundry take about 20 loads and jump on it to get it into the washer so it'd fit. Dumped in some soap, added their 50 cents, and the machine... caught on fire. Filed up with water, but the belt couldn't move the agitator, so it burned out the belt - smoke and all kinds of stink coming from the machine... their clothes basically got wrecked...

18. Rummaged through the garbage next to the mailboxes of our apartment complex to find discarded coupons.

17. Had a roomate that ate a 5 day old McDonalds Quarter Pounder that he forgot he left on his bookshelf. It didn't look any different!

16. Dated a horrible person because she was rich and would pay for dinner out 6 nights a week

15. Rice with cinnamon for breakfast, rice with soy sauce for lunch, rice with ketchup for dinner. If I was feeling very saucy (!) I would mix the soy sauce and ketchup.

14. One winter we ate rabbit about 6 times per week and I was sucky at cooking it.

13. Saltines for a dime a box from the day-old store was the only thing I ate for six weeks. Haven't been able to stand any kind of crackers since then.

12. I once ate a whole blueberry pie while sitting in a toilet stall in a grocery store. I was extremely broke at the time. I took a night job at the grocery store to make some extra money and because I though I would be able to sneak some food home. Getting food out of the store ended up being very difficult because they were careful to watch you while leaving. It was pretty easy to eat stuff while in the store though. You just needed a decent hiding spot.

11. I drove from WA to Alaska one summer. I bought a sleeping bag in Canada, used it every night for nearly a month, then returned it on the way home.

10. My uncle lived on unsweetened kool-aid and homemade biscuits for two years. The biscuits were flour and water - that's it.

9. My ex boyfriend would take ketchup packets from fast food restaurants and make ketchup soup out of them- basically, ketchup and water.

8. Using coffee filters instead of toilet paper.

7. Grossest thing I've ever done to save money was pick popcorn buckets/drinks out of the trash at the movie theater to get refills for $.25 or free depending on the movie theater my friends and I used to sneak into. That was when I was 13 though.

6. Had no insurance in college... needed to get rid of a skin tag. Dental floss and canned air. Floss around the base and spraying the can upside down provided the freezing effect. Pull each side of the floss and voila... you're done! It bled pretty well but toilet paper and some borrowed neosporin did the trick.

5. On a snowboard trip, not wanting to pay the exorbitant prices for lodge food, I made Chili out of condiments... - -Nab a paper or styrofoam cup from the actual food line, fill it with hot water for tea (they'll only charge you for a tea bag, not hot water). Then hit the condiment bar for ketchup, stir this in the hot water until its dissolved, crush up a couple crackers to thicken it, pickle relish and onions for veggies, salt and pepper to taste (adding in some brown mustard will give it some spice as well).

4. Went without health insurance. For 12 years. Turned out to be a money saving decision, but I don't necessarily recommend it.

3. When we were living out of a motel last year with no money and still waiting for food stamps to kick in, we ate nothing but oatmeal cooked in a crock pot for a week straight. No salt, no sugar, no cinnamon. Just water and oats.

2. Once for about a week I used an old t-shirt I found in my shed as toilet paper.

1. My friend did some drug trial - and actually had a spinal tap as part of it.

A Toe Crippling

Ballet dancers Hundreds of ballerinas stand on pointe together Group to set Guinness Record Pictures from all over the country join together at the Bandshell in New York's Central Park on August 2, 2010 and stand en pointe for one minute in an attempt to enter the Guinness Book of Records for "Most Ballerinas En Pointe". Some 230 dancers set a record of 1 minute and 7 seconds and will be entered in the book.

















Source:- Vancouver Sun Via Xinhuanet