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Do big stars get big?
VY Canis Majoris is the largest known star with a radius equal to 2600 solar radii. It would take over 7,000,000,000,000,000 (7 quadrillion) Earths to fill the volume of VY Canis Majoris
Is vy canis majoris star us bigger than the sun?
Yes. It is way bigger. The VY Canis Majoris is known to be 1,000,000,000 times the size of the Sun. It's so big that on a scale between the 2 the VY Canis Majoris would almost be a complete rectangle compared to the Sun (and the Sun is as small as a few pixels). The star would reach the top of the screen. Winner: VY Canis Majoris
What is Sirius's Constellation?
Sirius = Alpha Canis Majoris. In other words, it is the brightest star in the constellation Canis Major, or Big Dog.
How big do stars get?
VY Canis Majoris is the largest known star with a radius equal to 2600 solar radii. It would take over 7,000,000,000,000,000 (7 quadrillion) Earths to fill the volume of VY Canis Majoris
Is canis majoris canis major?
Not precisely.Canis major translated from Latin to English is "the great dog".Canis majoris translated from Latin to English is "of the great dog", or "the great dog's".("Great" in both of those is meant in the sense of "big, large", not in the sense of "wow, what a fantastic dog.")
How big is the Sun compared to VY Canis Majoris?
VY Canis Majoris (VY CMa) is the largest known star and also one of the most luminous.It has a radius of around1,800 -> 2,100 times that of our Sun. If the Sun was replaced by VY Canis Majoris, it's outer envelope would extend beyond Saturn.See related link for a pictorial.
What is the biggest star VY canis majoris or NML cygni?
Neither of them! The VY Canis Majoris is indeed bigger, but it isn't the biggest star in the Universe. The XZ Majoris Ceiphei is almost as big as the smallest Nebula, and it would take 10,000 years to orbit it in a passenger airplane. It is the biggest star in the Universe. So indeed the XZ Majoris Ceiphei is bigger than either the VY Canis Majoris or the NML Cygni. Comments: Estimating the sizes of these big stars is not easy and there are different answers in different places. For example, Wikipedia now gives NML Cygni as bigger than VY Canis Majoris. Also, I must admit I've never heard of "XZ Majoris Ceiphei". I know of the binary star XZ Cephei, but that's not the biggest star.
What do VY Canis Majoris and the moon have in common?
They are both spherically shaped. Other than that they have little in common. VY Canis Majoris is a star so big that if it was where the Sun is, we would be inside it and so would Mars. More spectacularly, so would Jupiter. Saturn would be frying.
How big is canus majoris compared to earth?
Canis Majoris is a red supergiant star that is one of the largest known stars in the universe. It is estimated to be about 1,000 times larger than the Sun in terms of volume, which means it is much larger than Earth. A single pixel representing Canis Majoris in an image of the Solar System would not even be visible when compared to Earth.
How big is CY Canis Majoris?
CY Canis Majoris is a hypergiant star, one of the largest known stars in the universe. It has a radius estimated to be around 1,420 times that of the Sun, making it one of the biggest stars known to astronomers.
Is it possible that VY Canis Majoris has already exploded?
It's possible but knowing how big that star is it will most likely explode in a few million years
If VY Canis Majoris was earth would it support 100 billion people or more?
No. VY Canis Majoris is a red "hypergiant" star. It would not support life at all. If the Sun were somehow replaced by VY Canis Majoris, the Earth would be instantly vaporized. You might be thinking "but what if it was a planet instead of a star," but the notion of a planet that large is ludicrous; anything that big would instantly collapse into a black hole without heat and radiation pressure from internal fusion to oppose its own gravity.
