The Biggest Known Star in The World
The biggest known star in the space is VY Canis Majoris (Big Dog on Latin), red hypergiant. It is approximately 2000 times larger then our Sun ~2 700 000 000 km across. It is located in constellation Canis Major. Distance from Earth is nearly 4900 light years. Even VY Canis Majoris is a 500 000 times brighter then our Sun, most of its light is absorbed by a cloud of dust particles which are ejected from the star over the past thousand years….
This ejection of materials suggest that this star is in its ending life stage which means it will eventually explode in supernova and remnant material will became a black hole…
Even the largest known VY Canis Majoris is not the most visible star. It is not the largest star by mass – we already mentioned it ejected much of its mass to space…
Jerome Lalande, the French astronomer is credited as person who discovered VY Canis Majoris. He mentions it in one of his entries in his star catalogue, as a 7th magnitude star. Entry is dated at March 7, 1801.
Source: http://www.orderoftheplanets.org/
