Poll: What is your favorite star?

wow! that's amazing.

that's my first choice in my favorite stars too

who said size doesn't matter? WTF

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmIw3B08DPE&feature...

When I was younger, I liked bloated but still very luminous stars. When I found out that sometimes the atmosphere of the earth is even denser than some of these stars, then I went to find other favorites. Now I go for the massive and extremely hot ones therefore extremely luminous ones. My personal favorite is HD269810...Hehehe, a star with no formal name. Currently it is O3III. Though described as a giant, the star can indeed still be a hydrogen burner. It is brighter than Rigel (absolute magnitude), the bright supergiant we know eventhough it is just a dwarf (which is why the luminosity class had been raised). Total luminosity climbs to 2.2 million suns. Mass at 150 suns, the temperature climbs to more than 50,000K while the radius may be around 15 solar. It is in the Large Magellanic Cloud, 168,000 light-years away. It will evolve into something like Eta Carinae perhaps as a luminous blue variable that will explode in a hypernova like that of SN200gy, 100 times brighter than a common supernova.

For observing, my favorite "star" is the colorful binary (Beta Cygni) Alberio. There are other colorful doubles in the sky, some (arguably) of greater visual magnificence, but Alberio was the second double star I ever gazed at through my first telescope. It was much more awe-inspiring to me than Alcor.

From an "interesting thing" perspective, discounting observing, I love reading about all the complex multiple star systems. Castor with it's six components keeps me reading and wondering on an endless basis.

P.S.

How many Mercury 2010's are there?

2MASS 0415–0935 is a really cool star...literally it is only about 440 degrees Celsius or 770 degrees Fahrenheit which is the coolest star ever found. It is a brown dwarf located in the constellation Eridanus.

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My hot, ripped Deneb will demolish your fat, bloated VY Canis Majoris in the first round.

(I'm sorry. I didn't intend for that to sound so mean.)

:-)

I don't have a favourite star, but if i had to pick one it would be a White Dwarf. Amazing such things in nature can exist.

http://starryskies.com/articles/2004/02/diamond.ht...

Antares. Even though I haven't seen it yet, I like it already.

But among all the stars I've seen, I like Sirius the best. It's just so bright and blue..

Yes the pole star.

SGR 1806-20 i love magnetars.