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VY Canis Majoris
« on: November 17, 2013, 05:18:58 PM »

VY Canis Majoris is one of the largest stars we know of (if not the largest).

While I could write pages upon pages about star classification, sizes, giants/supergiants/hypergiants, I'm not going to.

Instead, here's a picture that will probably make you feel uncomfortable:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/wfroddjzgpn0khc/Star-sizes.jpg
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