Sep 22, 2024, 09:41 AM IST
Betelgeuse: It is a red supergiant star in the constellation Orion, and one of the largest and brightest stars in the night sky. It is is 640–764 times the radius of the sun.
KW Sagittarii: It is one of the largest stars in the Milky Way, with a radius 100 times larger than the sun. It is located about 10,000 light-years from the sun.
R136a1: It is a star in the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud which is considered to be the most massive known star in the universe.
V766 Centauri: It is a white to yellow very luminous supergiant star in the constellation of Centaurus.
UY Scuti: It is a red supergiant star which is about 1,700 times larger than the sun, and could fit 5 billion suns inside of it.
VX Sagittarii: It is an asymptotic giant branch star located more than 1.5 kiloparsec away from the Sun in the constellation of Sagittarius.
KY Cygni: It is a red supergiant star in the Cygnus constellation. It is bout 1,420–1,503 times the radius of the Sun and the temperature of this star is around 3,500 K.
Credit: NASA