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- UY Scuti is the largest star we've ever discovered within the confines of our galaxy. But just how big is it, and how does it compare with other stars? UY Scuti is the largest star we've ever discovered within the confines of our galaxy.
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Canis Majoris Facts VY Canis Majoris is the largest star known to man. It is a red Hypergiant, located in the Milky way and measuring between 1800 to 2100 solar radii.One Radius is equal to the current radius of the Sun and it is approximately 432,450 miles (695,500 kilometers).VY Canis Majoris is so large that if our Sun were replaced by it, its surface would extend to (or maybe even pass) the orbit of Saturn.In Earth terms it would take 70 000 000 000 000 000 (70 quadrillion) Earths to fill up the VY Canis Majoris. rn. 1  Facebook.Y Canis Majoris is the largest star known to man. It is a red Hypergiant, located in the Milky way and measuring between 1800 to 2100 solar radii.
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- List of largest stars. Below is a list of the largest stars so far discovered, ordered by radius. The unit of measurement used is the radius of the Sun (695,700 km; 432,288 mi).
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List of largest stars Complex issues exist in determining the true radii of the largest stars, which in many cases do display significant errors. The following lists are generally based on various considerations or assumptions that include: Largest stars are usually expressed in units of the solar radius (R ☉), where 1.00 R ☉ equals 695,700 kilometres.
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What is the biggest star in our solar system? Best Answer: The sun is the only star in our solar system. Planet X is the planet believed to be orbiting on the same path as earth. Some people are convinced that it's on the other side of the sun and that it orbits around the sun at the exact same speed as us. It's just a fictional planet, though.
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StarChild Question of the Month for May 2000 And, yet, we do not think it is the biggest! Recent observations of a star called VY Canus Majoris show that it has a size between 600 and 2100 tims the size of our Sun! However, this star is only about 500,000 times brighter than our Sun and 30 or so times more massive than our Sun.he star is 25,000 light-years away from Earth. Despite this great distance, the star would be visible to the naked eye if it were not for all the dust between it and the Earth. UPDATE! As of January 2009, we now know about some other really big stars. One is called Eta Carinae.
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What is the Biggest Star in the Universe? As a result, astronomers estimate that its size could be anywhere from 1,642 to 2,775 solar radii, which means it could either be the largest star in the known Universe (with a margin of 1000 solar radii) or indeed the second largest, ranking not far behind UY Scuti.
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Star The open star cluster Pismis 24 is in the nebula NGC 6357. It has some of the largest stars known. Pismis 24-1 has nearly 300 times the mass of the Sun. It is a multiple system of at least three stars.
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The Largest Galaxy In the Known Universe: IC 1101 Located almost a billion light-years away, IC 1101 is the single largest galaxy that has ever been found in the observable universe. Just how large is it? At its largest point, this galaxy extends about 2 million light-years from its core, and it has a mass of about 100 trillion stars. Some estimates suggests that IC 1101 is 6 million light-years in diameter. To give you some idea of what that means, the Milky Way is just 100,000 light-years in diameter.
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10 Largest Stars In The Known Universe Betelgeuse is the brightest star in Orion, and one of the largest known stars with a diameter of roughly 700 times that of the Sun. Orion’s Alpha star is 20 times more massive than the Sun. This red supergiant emits 7,500 times as much energy as the Sun does.nother star found in the constellation Cepheus that is among the largest and most luminous stars in the Milky Way is Mu Cephei. It is a so-called red supergiant star and may be the largest star visible to the naked eye, and possibly, in the whole galaxy.
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Classic Horror Box Office Hits: 10 Films That Made Most Money Nothing beats a classic monster — be it shark, gremlin, or the devil himself — for scaring up crowds at the movie theater. Drawing on reported box office numbers, here are the 10 classic horror films made before 1990 that raked in the most at the box office.
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- Most Luminous Star Discovered. A team of astronomers from the University of Florida have found what could be the brightest star ever seen in the Universe. Located 45,000 light years away across our galaxy, LBV 1806-20 could be 40 million times brighter and 150 times larger than our own Sun.
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Mystery of 'Monster Stars' of the Large Magellanic Cloud: Solved The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), at a distance of 160000 light years, is the third nearest satellite of the Milky Way galaxy we live in and contains around 10 billion stars. The LMC has many star forming regions, with by far the most active being the 1000 light year diameter 'Tarantula Nebula' where the four supermassive stars are found.
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The Largest Stars in the Universe The answer is R136a1, which can be seen as the biggest and brightest star at the centre of a large cluster of stars in the Tarantula Nebula, in the constellation of Dorado. This cosmic kingpin weighs in at an impressive 265 solar masses. In other words it has 265 times the amount of ‘star stuff’ inside it than our Sun.
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Top 10 Largest Stars In The Universe This red hypergiant star is by far the largest known. It has an estimated radius between 1800 and 2100 times the radius of our Sun. With this size it would reach nearly to the orbit of Saturn if placed in our solar system. The star is located roughly 4,900 light-years from Earth in the constellation Canis Majoris.
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What is the largest known star? Another popular contender is the NML Cygni. It is also a red hypergiant and the following article from July 2013 claims it is bigger than VY Canis Majoris: NML Cygni - The Largest Star We Currently Know of in the Universe. W26 is yet another star that was the biggest known for a while.
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List of largest stars List of largest stars. (Redirected from List of largest known stars) Not to be confused with List of most massive stars. Relative sizes of the planets in the Solar System and some of the largest stars: Mercury < Mars < Venus < Earth. Earth < Neptune < Uranus < Saturn < Jupiter. Jupiter < Proxima Centauri < Sun < Sirius.
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What is the biggest star in the Universe? Given its vast size and a possible mass of 20 to 40 times that of our Sun (or 2-8×10³¹kg), UY Scuti has a probable density of 7×10⁻⁶ kg/m³. In other words, it is more than a billion times less dense than water. In fact, if you could place this star in the biggest water bath in the Universe, it would theoretically float. Being more than a million times less dense than Earth's average atmosphere at room temperature, it would also bob around in mid-air like a balloon – if only you could find a park big enough.
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Biggest Star Ever Found Is Ripping Apart (Photo) W26 is about 1,500 times wider than the sun, making it the biggest known star in the universe. The red supergiant star is nearing the end of its life and will eventually explode as a supernova, researchers said.
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What is the Biggest Star in the Universe? Follow the links below to learn more about these monster stars. R136a1 is the heaviest star, with 265 times the sun’s mass. UY Scuti is just plain big, with a radius 1,700 times that of our sun. Left to right: a red dwarf, the Sun, a blue dwarf, and R136a1.R136a1 is not the largest known star in terms of radius or volume, only in mass and luminosity.his star is thought to have only 25 times the sun’s mass. List of largest known stars. So you can see that there are extremely heavy stars … and then there are simply gigantic stars. What makes a star big might be its mass (like R136a1) or its physical size (like UY Scuti and the two other stars mentioned here).
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StarChild Question of the Month for May 2000 What is the biggest star we know? The largest known star (in terms of mass and brightness) is called the Pistol Star. It is believed to be 100 times as massive as our Sun, and 10,000,000 times as bright! In 1990, a star named the Pistol Star was known to lie at the center of the Pistol Nebula in the Milky Way Galaxy.
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- 1 VY Canis Majoris is the largest known star in our galaxy, if this star was in the center of our solar system its outer atmosphere would reach the orbit of Saturn.  One of the smallest known stars in our galaxy is VB 10, it is only around 20% larger than Jupiter.
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- The largest known star is VY Canis Majoris [See Link] which has a diameter about 2,100 times larger than that of our Sun; this means about 9,300,000,000 Suns would fit inside (gaseous bodies like stars do not really have a definite 'surface').
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What is the Biggest Star in the Universe? Consider WOH G64, a red supergiant star located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, approximately 168,000 light years from Earth. At 1.540 solar radii in diameter, this star is currently one of the largest in the known universe. But there’s also RW Cephei, an orange hypergiant star in the constellation Cepheus, located 3,500 light years from Earth and measuring 1,535 solar radii in diameter.
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How to Paint a Dining Room Table I love wood, don't get me wrong, but as you can see from the photos above, this particular table is (a) not real wood, and (b) possessing a wood tone that is too dark for our small dining room. We needed a little more light-n-bright. Stat. The chairs are in good condition, but not exactly what I'm after.
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- Astronomers really taken aback by stellar behemoth. The most massive star ever found looms behind other young star types in an artist's impression. A newfound star has shattered the record as the most massive stellar monster ever seen, astronomers announced today.