Okay, so the prompt is to pick an article from this week that interests me and write about it, and there was this article about Blue Stars, which look totally sick, in case you were wondering. The article was about how Blue Stars prove the universe is only thousands of years vs. billions of years old, as Blue Stars apparently use a lot of fuel to burn like that, and should burn up within millions, not billions, of years, and whats wrong with the nebular theory and such. All that is totally boring though, because freaking Blue Stars guys.
The article doesn’t even hardly explain them, (lame) so I looked them up. They’re just like other stars, 74% hydrogen and 25% helium, 1% etc elements, except they’ve got a different temperature. So it seems red stars are the coolest, and blue are the hottest. Their temperatures vary depending on their mass, nothing else. Blue Stars have at least 3 times the mass of our Sun. They can get much, much bigger than that, but as long as they’ve got that minimum down, they will appear blue to us.
Rigel is an example of a Blue Star. It’s the 6th brightest star in the sky, and the brightest in the constellation Orion. It’s been calculated that Rigel is somewhere between 700-900 light-years away, but still is as bright as Sirius, which is approx. 8.3 light-years away. Rigel is about 11,000 degrees Kelvin, (19340.33 F;10726.85 C) versus the Sun’s 5,887 K (9940.73 F;5504.85 C).
As Blue Stars as so hot, they burn through fuel very quickly. “With 150 times the mass of the Sun, Eta Carinae has only been around for a few million years and it’s expected to detonate as a supernova within the next 100,000 years. Our Sun, in comparison, has been around for 4.5 billion years and is expected to live another 7 billion years.” –Blue Stars written by Fraser Cain Jan, 29th, 2009,
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