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Expand Tweet UY Scuti is among the largest known stars in the Milky Way and is classified as a red hypergiant. The rapper’s frequent references to UY Scuti may indicate he intends to use it as either ...

Canis Majoris was once thought to be the largest star in the known universe, but it has since been dethroned by UY Scuti — a hypergiant located near the center of the Milky Way (in the Scutum ...

Westerlund 1 is one of the closest and most massive young star-forming clusters in our Galaxy, and it contains many rare supergiant and hypergiant stars, with masses ranging from eight to 100 times ...

This yellow hypergiant is located in the Cepheus constellation. Meet KW Sagittarii, the 10th largest star in the Milky Way. With a radius 100 times bigger than our sun, this red supergiant shines ...

several other stars rank among the largest in the universe: VY Canis Majoris: This is a red hypergiant, having a diameter of 1. 5 million kilometres, that is, 1500 times the size of the Sun and it ...

Color and variability tell us much about a star. The Garnet Star is a red hypergiant, an enormous star that has reached a premature old age similar to the more famous Betelgeuse in the constellation ...

Astronomers are intensely observing Eta Carinae, a hypergiant star with a mass nearly 100 times that of our Sun, as it edges closer to a potential and spectacular explosion. Despite its volatile ...

“The largest stars in the known universe are called variable hypergiants. Hypergiants are about 1700 times larger than our sun. A hypergiant is so big that 5 billion of our suns can be contained ...

In 2022, an enormous star 16,000 light-years from Earth began mysteriously dimming. After follow-up observations in 2023, a team of astronomers believe they have an explanation. When they aren't ...

And that leaves us with, drum roll, please, this guy, UY Scuti, the largest star that we know of. It kinda looks like its name should be UY Scuti. This hypergiant star at its largest point has a ...