size comparison between the sun and various stars

[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.

420ultimatesmokage Reviewed by 420ultimatesmokage on 07-03-2007. 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