VY Canis Majoris has a radius about 2,100 times that of the Sun.
This means that about 9 billion Suns could fit inside it.
See related link for a picture of the difference in size.
VY Canis Majoris is about 2,100 solar radii, it is possibly the largest known star and also one of the most luminous known. It is located about 1.5 kiloparsecs (4.6×1016 km) or about 4,900 light years away from Earth.
According to statistics and working out the distance light can travel in one year, I calculated that VY Canis Majoris is 46,357,579,315,645,920 Kilometers from Earth, the issue now is trying to break down that number, as it greatly exceeds trillions but if it were to be thought of, the distance would be something like Forty six thousand trillion, five hundred and seventy nine billion, three hundred and fifteen million, six hundred and forty five thousand, nine hundred and twenty kilometers.
Another thought is no human space craft now or in the near or distant future could ever travel that amount of distance, and so you would need to either stare at this oversized star through a very powerful telescope or in theory either teleport or open a worm hole to this star system.
No it is not. Even though it would take 1,000,000,000 suns to fill it up, or 1,000,000,000,000,000 earths, vy canis majoris is not the biggest thing. It is only a tiny drop compared to the vast collections of stars forming galaxys and the galays forming the observable universe.
So Vy Canis Majoris is about 2.625 times larger than Antares.
See related links for a pictorial of the size difference.
It doesn't make sense to talk about the "weight" of astronomical objects. The question should therefore be, "how massive is it".
Widipedia lists a value of 30-40 times the mass of the Sun. This is most likely an estimate (or several estimates); perhaps the value will be known with greater precision in the future.
We really can't explain it; if our fundamental understanding of physics is correct, then it shouldn't be possible for a star that large to exist. Which leaves us two options;
Either explanation may be correct.
VY Canis Majoris has a mass of about 15 to 25 times that of our own Sun.
During it's main sequence it would have had a mass of about 30 to 40 times that of our own Sun.
Canis majoris is about 4900 light years away
Yes there is a bigger star than VY Canis Majoris.....but no scientists discovered it yet, and they probably wont anytime soon, because VY Canis Majoris is very very far away.
Zeta Canis Majoris (Furud or Phurud) is a binary system in the constellation Canis Major.
It is approximately 336 light years from us.
At the moment, or even in the future - we will never know.Even if we managed to explore every star and planet in the whole Milky Way, by the time we had finished, more moons would have been created somewhere else.
Wolf 359 is a tiny red dwarf star 7.8 light-years away. At magnitude 13, it is not visible in hobbyist-class telescopes.
Barnards star is a highly variable star and can have different brightnesses.Apparent magnitude - 9.54Absolute magnitude - 13.22See related question about the difference between absolute and apparent magnitude
Sedna, a "dwarf planet" far beyond the orbit of Neptune, has a highly elliptical orbit with a perihelion of 76AU, or about 631 light-minutes from the Sun, and an aphelion of 975 AU, or about 8,093 light-minutes or 5.6 light-DAYS.
A white dwarf who's progenitor star was about the same mass as our Sun will leave behind a stellar remnant around the size of our Earth. Obviously if the progenitor star was larger or smaller, then the stellar remnant will also be larger or smaller.
About 25,000 light years from us,
It is the Canis major dwarf galaxy. It is 25,000 light years away from the sun.
The nearest galaxy to us is the Canis Major Dwarf about 0.025 million light years away.
This would be Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy, discovered in November 2003, which is approximately 25,000 light years from the Earth.
The nearest galaxy to us is the Canis Major Dwarf about 0.025 million light years away.
Andromeda galaxy is approximately 2.5 million light years from the Milky Way however there is a dwarf galaxy discovered in 2003 named Canis Major that appears to be in the process of being absorbed by the Milky Way and Canis Major is only 42000 light years from our galactic core but only 25000 light years from Earth.
The Kubasik Galaxy does not exist in real life. The nearest galaxy to Earth, Andromeda is about 2.5 million light years away. The nearest dwarf galaxy, Canis Major Dwarf, is a mere 0.025 million light years away
The closest galaxy to the Milky Way is the Canis Major Dwarf galaxy at 42000 light years from our galactic core. The Andromeda galaxy, often thought to be the closest, is 2.5 million light years away.
The Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy is currently considered to be the closest galaxy to the Milky Way. It is 25,000 light years from our solar system and 42,000 light years from the center of the Milky Way. Its status as a galaxy is still disputed in some scientific circles. If the Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy loses its galaxy status, then the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy would reacquire the title as the Milky Way's closest neighbor. It is it is roughly 50,000 light years from the center of the Milky Way.
The closest other galaxy to us would be the Canis Major Dwarf galaxy. It is only about 25,000 light years away (it is currently merging with the Milky Way).
It is nine light years from the earth. It is to the north of Canis Major.
Canis Major Dwarf - 0.025 million years