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The following list include the largest stars by their apparent size (angular diameter) as seen from Earth. The unit of measurement is the milliarcsecond (mas), equivalent to 10 × 10 −3 arcseconds .
10 de ene. de 2020 · The Top 10 Stars in the Sky by Diameter. Stars are immense balls of burning plasma. Yet, aside from the Sun in our own solar system, they appear as tiny pinpoints of light in the sky. Our Sun, technically a yellow dwarf, is neither the biggest or the smallest star in the universe.
Betelgeuse was once the largest star known, but recent estimates give it a radius of 640 solar radii, less than half of those of the largest stars discovered to date. Below is the list of the largest stars currently known, ordered by estimated radius. Stellar size is measured in solar radii.
The biggest star in the universe is UY Scuti, a red supergiant star that is estimated to be over 1,700 times larger than our Sun. It is located in the constellation Scutum and has a diameter of approximately 2.4 billion kilometers.
8 de may. de 2023 · NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals the supercluster Westerlund 1, home of one of the largest known stars. Westerlund 1-26, a red supergiant, has a radius more than 1,500 times that of the...
Meet the biggest and largest stars in our Universe that are hundreds of times bigger than our own Sun. These include the biggest, UY Scuti.
14 de feb. de 2024 · UY Scuti holds the prestigious title of the largest known star, a red supergiant star that dwarfs even the most luminous stars in our night sky. As a hypergiant star, UY Scuti's immense size is almost incomprehensible, with a radius about 1,700 times larger than that of our Sun.
