The name "Vy Canis Majoris" comes from the star's location in the constellation Canis Major and its classification as a "variable" star. "Vy" is simply a designation for variable stars while "Canis Majoris" indicates its location in the constellation.
The name of the biggest star so far known to man is called VY Canis Majoris.
The biggest star that we know of is a red hypergiant called: VY Canis Majoris at 2,100 times the size of our Sun. VY Canis Majoris is in the same constellation as Sirius (The Dog Star). The sun is the star with the largest apparent size because it is the closest. Sirius (The Dog Star) is a binary star and the brightest star in the sky, other than the sun.
The Biggest star is called the VY Canis majoris. The sun is invisible compared to this super giant star. I researched and it said that 7 quadrillion earths can fit in the Great VY Canis Majoris. Known to be the biggest star in our galaxy.
The smallest star is called: OGLE-TR-122b. It is almost as big as Jupiter. Stars can be quite big. The biggest star in the galaxy is called: VY Canis Majoris. That hypergiant star is way to big. The sun is invisible compared to it. 7 quadrillion Earths' can fit in the VY Canis Majoris.
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.
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VY Canis Majoris (VY CMa)
The biggest star yet is VY canis Majoris
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The VY Canus Majoris
We will never know the largest star in the Universe. The biggest star in our Galaxy is VY Canis Majoris.
That we know of, VY Canis Majoris.
VY Canis Majoris. The Red Hypergiant Is the biggest star. And the biggest Planet is Jupiter
VY Canis Majoris (Not Canis Majoris)
r136a1 is the newly discovered most massive (Mass) star. VY Canis Majoris is still the biggest star (Radius)
the Universe is a big place, and there's no way we can possibly know what the biggest star is. However, the biggest star that we do know of is called: VY Canis Majoris. Which is a red hypergiant star in the Canis Major constellation, located about 5,000 light-years from Earth.