• Question: How big is the biggest recorded star?

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      Asked by fifa 15 gamer Joe How to Alex, Anaïs, Peter, Shreesha on 18 Mar 2015.
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        Peter Maskell answered on 18 Mar 2015:

        UY Scuti which is about 5 billion times bigger than the Sun.

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UY_Scuti

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        Shreesha Bhat answered on 18 Mar 2015:

        UY Scuti which has an estimated average median radius of 1,708 solar radii, or a diameter of 2.4 billion km.

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        Anaïs Pujol answered on 19 Mar 2015:

        R 136 a1 located in a nebula called Tarentula in Magellanic Clouds, 265 solar mass ( The heaviest star) and 100 billions km diameter and a temperature of 40 000 °C.

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