List of largest stars - Wikipedia
Below are lists of the largest stars currently known, ordered by radius and separated into categories by galaxy. The unit of measurement used is the radius of the Sun (approximately …
UY Scuti - Wikipedia
UY Scuti (BD-12°5055) is a red supergiant star, located 5,900 light-years away in the constellation Scutum. It is also a pulsating variable star, with a maximum brightness of magnitude 8.29 and …
Hypergiant - Wikipedia
A hypergiant (luminosity class 0 or Ia +) is a very rare type of star that has an extremely high luminosity, mass, size and mass loss because of its extreme stellar winds. The term …
What is the biggest star in the universe? | Space
2023年5月8日 · The biggest star in the universe (that we know of), UY Scuti is a variable hypergiant with a radius around 1,700 times larger than the radius of the sun. To put that in …
Hypergiants: the Most Massive Stars in the Universe - ThoughtCo
2018年10月1日 · The biggest ones out there are called "hypergiants", and they dwarf our tiny Sun. Not only that, but some of them can be truly weird. Hypergiants are tremendously bright …
Star UY Scuti is so big, you could fit 5 billion Suns inside it
UY Scuti is often called the biggest known star in the Universe, but is that true? A guide to the red hypergiant and how big it really is.
What is the largest known star in the universe? It's a red hypergiant.
2023年2月16日 · The largest known star in the universe is UY Scuti. It has an estimated radius of 1.188 billion kilometers. If UY Scuti were the center of our solar system, its photosphere, or …
The most extreme stars in the universe - Astronomy Magazine
2020年9月23日 · The biggest of these stars, sometimes called hypergiants, can swell to more than 1,000 times the size of the Sun. But UY Scuti, located near the center of the Milky Way in …
Hypergiant Stars: The Most Massive Stars in the Universe
2019年4月20日 · Hypergiant stars are the live-fast, die-young rock stars of the cosmos, but recently, astronomers have discovered what may be the biggest, baddest star of them all. Star …
Explore the Top 10 Largest Stars by Diameter - ThoughtCo
2020年1月10日 · This red hypergiant is among the largest known stars in our galaxy. It has an estimated radius between 1,800 and 2,100 times that of the Sun. At this size, if placed in our …