• Question: What is the largest Star that we have discovered?

    Asked by 47liger98 to Ashley, Bernard, Carsten, MariaMagdalena, Monique on 19 Nov 2015.
    • Photo: Monique Henson

      Monique Henson answered on 19 Nov 2015:

      The largest star we’ve ever found is probably UY Scuti. I say probably because we’re still not sure exactly how big it is yet. There’s a picture of it on Wikipedia here. At the moment we think it’s 1.5 billion (1 500 000 000) miles across.

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