This artist’s impression of hypergiant star VY Canis Majoris shows the star’s vast convection cells and violent ejections. VY Canis Majoris is so large that if it replaced the Sun, the star ...

Dubbed VY Canis Majoris, this star may be the largest in our Milky Way galaxy. In fact, hypergiants are so large that they can measure up to 10,000 times the distance between the Earth and Sun in ...

One possibility, VY Canis Majoris, is so big that if you placed it in the Sun’s position at the center of the solar system, it would extend to Saturn’s orbit! R136a1 is a good candidate.

If we’re talking about the biggest star, most sites assert that VY Canis Majoris is the largest out there. Ultimately, it is some 3,600 times larger than the sun. That’s pretty big ...

One of the largest stars in the Milky Way, VY Canis Majoris, has been caught undergoing a dramatic weight loss, an event that heralds the beginning of the end for the star. Astronomers from the ...