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minus-squaremybuttnolie@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·8 个月前it doesn’t say it’s the sun in the picture
minus-squareBeacon@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up4·8 个月前All stars are significantly bigger than earth https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/116663-smallest-known-star
minus-squaremoody@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·8 个月前By mass. But in terms of dimensions there are many stars smaller than Earth.
minus-squareBeacon@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 个月前Incorrect. The smallest known star is 7 times larger than earth https://www.iflscience.com/smallest-star-ever-discovered-and-its-only-a-tiny-bit-bigger-than-earth-73035
minus-squareBeacon@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up3·8 个月前From what i find on a quick websearch, it seems that neutron stars aren’t stars. I don’t really know anything about that topic
minus-squareCrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·8 个月前That is correct. Neutron stars, white dwarfs, and stellar mass black holes (possibly intermediate mass as well) are all stellar remnants, ie star corpses.
minus-squareDevadander@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 个月前Yeah no shit. But in the sky, they’re merely a point. Which is what the rhyme is speaking to
minus-squareBeacon@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 个月前The comment thread you’re replying to is talking about the actual size of the celestial bodies
minus-squareDevadander@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-28 个月前The narrator of the rhyme doesn’t even know what it is, much less its size. ‘How I wonder what you are’. They’re speaking to a point of light
minus-squareBeacon@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 个月前Again, you’re not wrong, but that’s not the topic of the thread you’re replying on
It’s not written about the sun
it doesn’t say it’s the sun in the picture
All stars are significantly bigger than earth
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/116663-smallest-known-star
By mass. But in terms of dimensions there are many stars smaller than Earth.
Incorrect. The smallest known star is 7 times larger than earth
https://www.iflscience.com/smallest-star-ever-discovered-and-its-only-a-tiny-bit-bigger-than-earth-73035
Neutron stars?
From what i find on a quick websearch, it seems that neutron stars aren’t stars. I don’t really know anything about that topic
That is correct. Neutron stars, white dwarfs, and stellar mass black holes (possibly intermediate mass as well) are all stellar remnants, ie star corpses.
Yeah no shit. But in the sky, they’re merely a point. Which is what the rhyme is speaking to
The comment thread you’re replying to is talking about the actual size of the celestial bodies
The narrator of the rhyme doesn’t even know what it is, much less its size. ‘How I wonder what you are’. They’re speaking to a point of light
Again, you’re not wrong, but that’s not the topic of the thread you’re replying on