what is the name of the largest star that we have discovered
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How big is the biggest star we have ever found? Not surprisingly, UY Scuti is classified as a hypergiant star – which is the classification which comes after supergiant and regular giant. Its size may make it the biggest, but it is not the most massive star (where the mass in massive stands for the amount of matter in the star).
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Top 5 Largest Stars In The Universe Top 5 Largest Stars In The Universe. By | On 13, Jul 2014 | 5 mins: 18 secs + -. Even though we see stars every day, twinkling in the night sky, they never fail to fascinate scientists and ordinary observers alike. Here are the 5 largest stars in the universe in terms of mass, size, and luminosity.
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Scientists Discover Smallest Known Star NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCB. Astronomers recently stumbled upon a teeny star called 2MASS J0523-1403 located just 40 light years away. It's not only the smallest star discovered so far - it may also represent the smallest possible star.
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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.
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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. In 1995, it was suggested that the Pistol Star was so massive it was throwing off the mass that actually created the Pistol Nebula.
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Largest Known Planet Discovered, Astronomers Announce The planet, dubbed HAT-P-1, is located some 450 light-years from Earth in the constellation Lacerta. It is the largest planet ever discovered and boasts a radius nearly 1.4 times larger than Jupiter's.HAT-P-1 is also the least dense of all known planets. This planet is about one quarter the density of water, said Gaspar Bakos, a Hubble fellow at CfA. In other words, it's lighter than a giant ball of cork.he planet, dubbed HAT-P-1, is located some 450 light-years from Earth in the constellation Lacerta. It is the largest planet ever discovered and boasts a radius nearly 1.4 times larger than Jupiter's.
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What is the Biggest Star in the Universe What is the Biggest Star in the Universe. by Colm Byrne on January 18, 2013. Jerome Jérôme. Lalande the largest star that we know of is CALLED Vy Canis majoris’it s a long way From earth 3,900 3900 5,000 5000 light. Years’it s so big if it was The sun in our solar system its surface would extend Past. jupiter
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Most Massive Star DiscoveredâShatters Record Astronomers really taken aback by stellar behemoth. View Images. 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.
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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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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.he star that we are most familiar with is our Sun. However, compared to many of the other stars in the Universe our central stars is, well, kinda puny. Below is a list of the 10 largest (by diameter) stars known to exist in the Universe.
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Largest known star UY Scuti is 5 billion times the size of the Sun Largest known star UY Scuti is 5 billion times the size of the Sun. UY Scuti is a red supergiant star in the Scutum constellation. It is one of the largest known stars by radius at 1,708 ± 192 solar radii, corresponding to the diameter of 2,375,828,000 kilometers. If placed at the center of the Solar System, UY Scuti can engulf all the planets all the way to Jupiter, filling more than halfway through Saturn’s orbit. It has a volume approximately 5 billion times that of the Sun.
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The Stellar Magnitude System Ancient Origins of The Stellar Magnitude System. Star magnitudes do count backward, the result of an ancient fluke that seemed like a good idea at the time. The story begins around 129 B.C., when the Greek astronomer Hipparchus produced the first well-known star catalog. Hipparchus ranked his stars in a simple way. He called the brightest ones of the first magnitude, simply meaning the biggest.. Stars not so bright he called of the second magnitude, or second biggest. The faintest stars he could see he called of the sixth magnitude.. Around A.D. 140 Claudius Ptolemy copied this system in his own star list.
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Most massive star on record found in neighbouring galaxy Astronomers say they have discovered the most colossal star on record, in a region of space known as the Tarantula nebula in a neighbouring galaxy to our own. The record-breaking star has a mass 265 times greater than the sun and is millions of times brighter, they said.
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How big is the biggest star we have ever found? Spot the biggest. Rutherford Observatory. The universe is such a big place that it is easy to get baffled by the measurements that astronomers make. The size of UY Scuti, possibly one of the largest stars we have observed to date, is certainly baffling.
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List of Largest Stars Gets 3 New Chart Toppers The previous record holder for largest known star has been bumped into fourth place. The previous record holder for largest known star has been bumped into fourth place.
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Questions for Chapter 15 Which star has ' the great­est luminosity? d. Which star has the least luminosity? e. Which star has the highest surface temperature? f. Which star has the lowest surface temperature? g. Which star is most similar to the Sun? h. Which star is a red supergiant? i. Which star has the largest radius? j. Which stars have finished burning hydrogen in their cores? k. Among the main-sequence stars listed, which one is the most massive? l. Among the main-sequence stars listed, which one has the longest lifetime? 24.
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- 1 There are around 200 billion stars in the Milky Way alone.  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.
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- PUBLISHED. The most massive star ever found looms behind other young star types in an artist's impression. Image courtesy M. Kornmesser, ESO A newfound star has shattered the record as the most massive stellar monster ever seen, astronomers announced today.
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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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How big is the biggest star we have ever found? UY Scuti's mass is probably slightly more than 30 times the mass of our sun, which places it nowhere near the top of the most massive stars list. That honour is held by a star with the charming name of R136a1, which clocks in at 265 times as massive as the sun, but only 30 times the radius of the sun.
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How big is the biggest star we have ever found? The size of UY Scuti, possibly one of the largest stars we have observed to date, is certainly baffling. Not surprisingly, UY Scuti is classified as a “hypergiant” star – which is the classification which comes after “supergiant” and regular “giant”. Its size may make it the biggest, but it is not the most massive star (where the “mass” in massive stands for the amount of matter in the star).
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What is the Biggest Star in the Universe? The primary of this system is estimated to be 250 times the size of our Sun, a minimum of 120 solar masses, and a million times as bright – making it one of the biggest and brightest stars ever observed. Eta Carinae, one of the most massive stars known, located in the Carina constellation. Credit: NASA.
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StarChild Question of the Month for May 2000 What is the biggest star we know? Answer: 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. In 1995, it was suggested that the Pistol Star was so massive it was throwing off the mass that actually created the Pistol Nebula. Observations from the Hubble Space Telescope in 1997 confirmed the relationship between the star and the nebula. Astronomers are currently unsure how a star this massive could have formed or how it will act in the future. The Pistol Star appears as the bright white dot in the center of the image shown above. The Hubble Space Telescope's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) was needed to take the picture, because the star is hidden at the galactic center, behind a great deal of obscuring dust.
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StarChild Question of the Month for May 2000 What is the biggest star we know? Answer: 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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Largest Known Planet Discovered, Astronomers Announce The planet, dubbed HAT-P-1, is located some 450 light-years from Earth in the constellation Lacerta. It is the largest planet ever discovered and boasts a radius nearly 1.4 times larger than Jupiter's. HAT-P-1 is also the least dense of all known planets. This planet is about one quarter the density of water, said Gaspar Bakos, a Hubble fellow at CfA. In other words, it's lighter than a giant ball of cork.
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VY Canis Majoris Humphreys originally estimated the radius of VY CMa at 1,800-2,100 solar radii, which made it the largest star then known. A more recent and accurate VLTI measurement gives the star a radius of 1420 ± 120 solar radii.