VY Canis Majoris is a red hypergiant star. It is ~6.6AU, meaning - TopicsExpress



          

VY Canis Majoris is a red hypergiant star. It is ~6.6AU, meaning that it would extend beyond the orbit of Jupiter, and possibly the orbit of Saturn. That is ONE star. This means that ~3.72E15(3,720,000,000,000,000) Earths could fit in that star. Just let that sink in. The majority of people on this planet dont ever leave the country they were born into, so they only see a tiny fraction of our planet. I could give error bounds but the errors bounds are still so big that they would just be numbers to the human mind. #Science and #Astrophysics is beautiful and awe inspiring.
Posted on: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 23:24:30 +0000

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