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 would ...

There are several candidates for the biggest star in the universe. One of them, VY Canis Majoris, is over 1,500 times the width of the sun. If it were placed in our solar system, it would stretch to ...

A: The biggest star size-wise is VY Canis Majoris, which is about 2,000 times wider than our sun. You can fit 9.3 billion of our suns into VY Canis Majoris. This star is about 4,900 light years from ...

In the southern hemisphere, in the constellation Canis Major, lies a very young, very massive red hypergiant star called VY Canis Majoris (VY CMa). A pulsating variable, its apparent magnitude (how ...

Many objects in the Milky Way prick the imagination: be it Saturn’s rings, the mystical shapes created from the primordial gas clouds, the strange exoplanets that careen around their stars at hyper ...

Through observations ofone of the largest stars known to exist in the Milky Way, a redhypergiant known as VY Canis Majoris, astronomers have been able tounravel the mystery as to how enormous stars ...

The Universe is home to celestial bodies of staggering dimensions. VY Canis Majoris is a striking example. This star, located about 6,000 light-years away, is a red hypergiant. Its diameter is nearly ...

Astronomers have discovered that the hypergiant star VY Canis Majoris is shedding 30 Earthloads of dust a year in a massive weight loss programme before it goes supernova. The supersized red star ...

The Milky Way's largest star is slowly dying, and all astronomers can do is watch. Of course, even if we could get to VY Canis Majoris, there isn't much we could do to stop the death of a star. In ...