The red hypergiant star VY Canis Majoris, 4,000 light-years distant, is in a turbulent phase near the end of its life. Wracked by pulsations, it is expelling mass in a series of dusty knots and arcs.

"In VY Canis Majoris -- 30 [times the] mass of [the] sun and 300,000 more luminous -- this is much more extreme," she said. "These gaseous outflows may be as much as 10 times the mass of Jupiter ." ...

VY Canis Majoris is a stellar goliath, a red hypergiant, one of the largest known stars in the Milky Way. It is 30-40 times the mass of the Sun and 300,000 times more luminous.

The star VY Canis Majoris is a red hypergiant, one of the largest known stars in the Milky Way. It is 30-40 times the mass of the Sun and 300 000 times more luminous.

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VY Canis Majoris is so large that if it replaced the Sun, the star would extend for hundreds of millions of miles, between the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn. NASA , ESA , and R. Humphreys ...

But there are some discoveries that boggle the mind, and for me, VY Canis Majoris tops the list. Situated in the constellation Canis Major […] / Futurism / ...

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 fro… ...