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What is the biggest star in our galaxy?

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What is the biggest star in our galaxy?
posted Mar 23, 2017 by Sumana

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Following this discovery, UY Scuti was officially named the largest known star in the galaxy, surpassing previous record holders such as Betelgeuse, VY Canis Majoris, and NML Cygni.

answer Mar 24, 2017 by Manikandan J
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Currently UY Scuti is the leading candidate for being the largest known star by radius and is also one of the most luminous of its kind. It has an estimated radius of 1,708 solar radii (1.188×109 kilometres; 7.94 astronomical units); thus a volume nearly 5 billion times that of the Sun. It is approximately 2.9 kiloparsecs (9,500 light-years) from Earth. If placed at the center of the Solar System, its photosphere would at least engulf the orbit of Jupiter.

answer Mar 30, 2017 by Sanam
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