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It has an estimated radius between 1800 and 2100 times that of the sun.

World on fire bbc iplayer. Bigger stars biggest star. The universe is a big place i said and theres no way we can possibly know what the biggest star is. But we can give it a try.

Here are the top 6 biggest stars in the universe currently known by radius. In fact it is really hard to give an exact answer to this question since the universe is big neighboring and the other galaxies are billions of light years away from us. Great uncertainties remain with the membership and order of the list especially when deriving various parameters used in calculations such as stellar luminosity and effective temperature.

Below is a list of the largest stars currently known ordered by radiusthe unit of measurement used is the radius of the sun approximately 695700 km. Vy canis majoris vy cma is a red hypergiant star located in the constellation canis. The biggestlargest known stars in the universe.

And its not alone in dwarfing earths dominant star. So she refined the question. Vy canis majoris abbreviated to vy cma is an extreme oxygen rich o rich red hypergiant rhg or red supergiant rsg and pulsating variable star located at 12 kiloparsecs 3900 ly away from earth in the constellation of canis majorit is one of the largest known stars by radius and is also one of the most luminous and massive red supergiants as well as one of the most luminous stars.

The largest known star in the universe is uy scuti a hypergiant with a radius around 1700 times larger than the sun. The largest one weve spotted in the universe so far is uy scuti a star 9500 light years away close to the center of the milky way in the constellation scutum. This red hypergiant is among the largest known stars in our galaxy.

The largest of all. Tim brown the image bank getty images.