Template:Did you know nominations/S Doradus


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The result was: promoted by Hawkeye7 (talk) 07:45, 20 June 2016 (UTC)

S Doradus

 * ... that the star S Doradus was calculated to be around 2,000,000 times as luminous as the Sun when at its brightest in 1989?


 * ALT1:... that the star S Doradus was calculated to have ranged between 100 and 380 times the radius of the Sun?
 * Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Barbara Minishi

5x expanded by Lithopsian (talk). Nominated by Casliber (talk) at 14:40, 28 May 2016 (UTC).


 * Content - tricky, but S Doradus is at maximum luminosity when it is at minimum visual brightness. So  was at the 1965 deep minimum (mv = 11.5).  The high luminosity comes from the increase in temperature, additional ultraviolet more than compensating for the decreased visual output.  Not sure how to put that succinctly into a hook.  Maybe could even use the apparent paradox as the hook rather than just the big number. Lithopsian (talk) 14:49, 28 May 2016 (UTC)


 * Symbol voting keep.svg This article is a five-fold expansion and is new enough and long enough. Approving ALT1, the facts of which have inline citations to a reliable source not available to me. The article is neutral and I was unable to form a view on whether there are any copyright issues because of lack of access to the sources. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:58, 16 June 2016 (UTC)