size comparison between the sun and various stars

[420ultimatesmokage]

to start off with, VY Canis Majoris is the largest known star. if you were to replace the sun with this star its outer edge would extend to the orbit of saturn
article:VY Canis Majoris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VY_Canis_Majoris)
pic of size comparison:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3b/Sun_and_VY_Canis_Majoris.png

here is a video comparing our sun to some other stars

...some stars and planets in scale (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3974466981713172831)

[Melkane]

That's so going to be a black hole when it dies.

[sonic titan]

Would we be able to see the light from earth when this goes into hypernova? Too bad I won't be living.

[Melkane]

Most certainly, this is one of the brightest stars in our sky. The earth will be able to see it quite well.

[420ultimatesmokage]

Would we be able to see the light from earth when this goes into hypernova? Too bad I won't be living.

i'd imagine we would be able to see it. it's 5,000 light years away which is our neighbor in the cosmological sense.

[LeetCraig]

God damn, and I thought the sun was big.

[GoldenGoblin]

actually if its that size it will become a supermassive blackhole (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermassive_black_hole)

there is always something bigger out there