There must be a reason for all this.
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Originally Posted by BadNick
Betelgeuse seems embarrased, though I would be happy to be that large...relatively speaking.
Classified as a red supergiant, Betelgeuse is one of the largest and most luminous stars known. If it were at the center of our Solar System, its surface would extend past the asteroid belt possibly to the orbit of Jupiter and beyond, wholly engulfing Mercury, Venus, the Earth and Mars.
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I have this visualization stashed somewhere as an animated .gif - I'll rummage around to find it, seeing as it is semi-relevant to what I'm reading now.