SOLAR SYSTEM

Detailed explanation-1: -Is the Sun the biggest star? The Sun may be the center of our solar system, but it is not the biggest star in the universe. The Sun has a mean radius of around 696, 000 kilometers, or 432, 450 miles. In comparison to UY Scuti, the Sun’s radius is 1, 700 times smaller.

Detailed explanation-2: -Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. Jupiter’s mass is nearly times that of the Sun. Sirius, Pollux, Alpha Centauri A, UY Scuti etc. are some examples of stars bigger than the sun.

Detailed explanation-3: -The largest known star (in terms of mass and brightness) is called the Pistol Star. It is believed to be 100 times as massive as our Sun, and 10, 000, 000 times as bright! In 1990, a star named the Pistol Star was known to lie at the center of the Pistol Nebula in the Milky Way Galaxy.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -Sun is also a star but it looks larger than other stars because other stars are millions of times farther away than sun. The largest known star in the universe know to us is UY Scuti whose radius is around 1700 times than that of our Sun. Thus, has a volume 5 billion times that of the Sun.

Detailed explanation-6: -It is among the largest known stars, one of the most luminous red supergiants, and one of the most luminous stars in the Milky Way.