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BASIC INFO
Stephenson 2-18 is the biggest known star in the universe. It is a red supergiant, possibly even a hypergiant star. It easily dwarfs our sun, and it would take 9 hours to circle it at the speed of light.
ADVANCED INFO
Size: 1.860 billion miles across
Mass: 30±10 solar masses
Distance from Earth: 19,570 light-years
Galaxy: Milky Way
Age: 17 ± 3 million years old
Luminosity: 437,000 L
Type: Red Supergiant or hypergiant
Temperature: 5,792 Fahrenheit (3,200 Celsius) (At surface)
SOME RANDOM FACTS
If it was placed in our solar system, it would go beyond the orbit of Saturn.
It can also fit about 13 quadrillion Earths.
The former biggest star was UY Scuti.
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