• Question: what is the bigest sun we now of

    Asked by asierp9nru to David, Jonathan, Pete, Sam on 6 Jul 2012.
    • Photo: Pete Etchells

      Pete Etchells answered on 6 Jul 2012:

      The largest star we know of is called ‘VY Canis Majoris’ and is about 2000 times the size of our Sun! If put in context, if you put it in the centre of the solar system, it would extend out to where Jupiter is – pretty huge!

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