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Is betelgeuse the biggest star you know of?

Updated: 8/18/2019
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ChexMalander

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13y ago

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No. The biggest star ever discovered is the VY Canis Majoris, a red hypergiant with a radius of easily 2000 times bigger than that of the Sun. That is more than twice the radius of Betelgeuse. Also, the mass of VY Canis Majoris is around twice that of Betelgeuse.

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