Most certainly, this is one of the brightest stars in our sky. The earth will be able to see it quite well.
Melkane Reviewed by Melkane on . size comparison between the sun and various stars 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 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 Rating: 5