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Bing AI's attempt at comparing the size of the star with the orbit of Mars: Betelgeuse is one of the largest known stars and is probably at least the size of t
by Koshkin 3y ago
Bing AI's attempt at comparing the size of the star with the orbit of Mars:
Betelgeuse is one of the largest known stars and is probably at least the size of the orbits of Mars or Jupiter around the sun 1. According to the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Betelgeuse has a diameter of about 600 million miles. The average distance between Mars and the Sun is approximately 140 million miles. Therefore, Betelgeuse is about 4.3 times larger than the orbit of Mars.
When asked not to compare diameter with radius, it said:
You are right. I apologize for the mistake in my previous response. Betelgeuse has a diameter of about 1.2 billion miles. The average distance between Mars and the Sun is approximately 140 million miles. Therefore, Betelgeuse is about
8.6 times larger than the orbit of Mars.
(For the reference, the radius of Mars' orbit is 228000000 km; the radius of the Sun is 696342 km, the radius of Betelgeuse is 764 times that, i.e. 532005288 km, which is about 2.3 times the radius of Mars' orbit.)