• Question: what's the biggest star in space?

    Asked by ehoy444 to Emma on 20 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Emma Ashley

      Emma Ashley answered on 20 Mar 2013:

      The VY Canis Majoris is a red hypergiant star and the largest known at the moment. 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!

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