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Did you know that the fastest pulsar that we've found travels about 1/4 the speed of light and rotates at 43,000 time per second?

Or that Neutron stars have allowed us to detect objects the size of the moon because of the disruption to the spin rate?

Neither did I. This is a deep dive into something I have always been fascinated with but the regular shows about this don't go into because they are trying to make it entertaining or something.
 
So, no more yelling into the void for me.


The void is there. We are in the void. Did you know that? We are in the KBC Void and that is why we get to see all the cool stuff in the universe that we get to see.

I didn't know that. That is very cool. However, yelling into the void isn't very cool. So, I will stop doing it.
 
In honor of my first "fat" rating, I give you the fluffiest but not densest star ever found:


Here are some facts which I will give in the classic first person narrative:

My name is UY Scuti. Here are my attributes:

1) I live in the Milky way, near the "zone of avoidance" lol
2) I am not one of the hottest stars out there. Far from it actually.
a. My surface is only 3,000 Kelvin
b. The sun's surface is 5,778 Kelvin
3) I am no longer in my "main sequence"
4) I'm an inefficient star with a short life span
5) The sun can fit into me 5.1 billion times
6) I eat up Saturn if I were placed where the sun resides
7) It takes photons 14.5 seconds to get around the sun, but it takes 7 hours to get around my body.
8) 400,000 times more luminous than the sun, not visible to the naked eye
9) I once was very bright, but the brightness changed when I was surveyed again, leading to the reclassification as a "pulsating variable star"
10) Unfortunately, you won't be able to see stars much bigger than me because of the fact that I eat up dust and everything around me. This dust makes it hard to see fatties like me.
11) We can never detect life around me because I'm far too fat and bright to see any transiting planets.
12) When I die, I will go hypernova.

And here are some screenshot because you aren't going to watch it.

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