The universe is such a big place that it is easy to get baffled by the measurements that astronomers make. The size of UY Scuti, possibly one of the largest stars we have observed to date, is ...

There are so many stars in the modern universe that we couldn’t ever hope to count them all. Many are so distant from us that we can’t even see them, while others are obfuscated by space debris and ...

For comparison, UY Scuti has an estimated main-sequence radius of about 1,188 Million kilometres, or some 1700 times larger than that of the Sun. If put in the middle of the solar system then the size ...

1860 — is the 12-month time period that German astronomers at the Bonn Observatory first catalogued UY Scuti: the biggest star in the universe, laying near the center of the Milky Way, roughly 9500 ...