GK
GENERAL SCIENCE
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VY Canus Majoris
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Saturn
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Venus
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The Asteroid Belt
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -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 1.2 kiloparsecs (3, 900 light-years) from the Solar System in the slightly southern constellation of Canis Major.
Detailed explanation-3: -Meet VY Canis Majoris, a hulking, bruising monster of a star. It’s a red giant with a size more readily measured in astronomical units (AU), the distance between the Earth and the Sun. VY Canis is almost 1, 500 times wider than the Sun, or around 6 AU.