• Question: What's the biggest sun in the universe? also who's you scientist idol?

    Asked by becky202 to Alex, Matt, Rika on 24 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Chandrika Nair

      Chandrika Nair answered on 23 Jun 2011:

      Hi, interesting question! Didn’t know much about it, but turns out the biggest red supergiants we know of are KW Sagitarii, V354 Cephei, and KY Cygni, all of which have a radius about 1500 times bigger than our sun! My scientist idol is probably Rosalind Franklin because she played a role in the discovery of the structure of DNA but everyone only really remembers Watson and Crick :(.

    • Photo: Alex Davenport

      Alex Davenport answered on 24 Jun 2011:

      Rosalind Franklin is a good Idol! She died of cancer before Watson, Crick and Wilkins got the Nobel Prize.

      I think Mine is probably Alexander Flemming, or possibly Edward Jenner.
      Flemming discovered pennecillin (of which I’m allergic to) and proved that you can be messy and still make a great discovery!
      And Jenner was the first to realise the power of vaccination (not just inocculation!) And therefore spawned the ideas that ended in the irradication of small pox!

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