Our sun is getting a lot of attention. Life on Earth is larger than the rest of the stars in the sky. The sun is no longer a giant if you zoom out to the far reaches of our universe. It is an average in size. The largest star in the universe is unknown.
The answer depends on whether you're talking about mass or the total volume of a star. When it comes to size, the lightest stars are usually unremarkable. Stars get older and tend to lose mass. The tallest people may not be the lightest.
You are talking about mass. There is a record for the star R136a1, according to the person. It is located about 160,000 light-years away from Earth in a small galaxy. Imagine a cherry next to a yoga ball that is more than 200 times the size of the sun, and this star in its diameter. The star is 1 million years old, compared to our sun's 4.5 billion years, and has not done much cooling off or expanding.
Stars live a long time.
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There are many candidates for the biggest star in the universe. Uy Scuti is at the top of that list. A study published in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics shows that this red hypergiant is 1,700 times larger than the sun. UY Scuti would be 10 stories high if the sun were a cherry. There is a lot of uncertainty in determining the diameter of stars that are so far away. Due to the fact that stars appear dimmer with distance and brighter close up, scientists need to know how much light the stars produce. The fact that red hypergiants like UY Scuti are often "variable," meaning their brightness flickers and flares over time, adds to the fact that you end up with a big margin of error.
The authors of the paper reported that UY Scuti could be larger or smaller than thought. The red hypergiants are difficult to model. The surfaces are moving fast.
W OH G64 is a red supergiant that is less than 5 million years old, and VY Canis Majoris is about 8 million years old. Either could beat UY Scuti in size. I think it's cool, either way," he said. If any of these stars replaced our sun at the center of our solar system, they would cover every planet in their wake. All the outer planets would be destroyed.
Our sun isn't the largest star in the universe, but it is the smallest. What is the smallest star? According to a study published in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics, it's the name of the game. The authors reported that the planet is small and barely qualifies for a star classification. It wouldn't be able to sustain fusion at its core at a lower mass.
The universe is vast and the stars that lie in it are the ones that are closest to us. It's not possible to measure the size of stars at the other side of the Milky Way. He said there was too much interference with light. We still don't know how heavy a star can get, despite the fact that UY Scuti and J0555-57Ab approach the upper and lower limits. There could be some very good surprises.
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