UY Scuti

5 billion suns can fit into UY Scuti, the biggest star of the observable universe.

Think again if you think the Earth or the Sun is a big celestial body. The star 'UY Scuti' holds the largest star in the world that can be observed with a size of approximately 1708 times the radius of the Sun.

According to the British Daily Mail, this hyper - giant in the Scutum (constellation) constellation, 9,500 light years away from Earth, has a volume that is large enough to accommodate 5 billion Suns. (Remember that the Sun can fit into the Earth about 1 million times too).

In other words, the distance between the Sun and Earth (149.6 million kilometers) has to travel about 8 times to go from its central point to its surface. The star with a numerical median radius of 2 billion 375 million 828 thousand kilometers has a mass of 30 times the Sun's.

If we were not constantly turning around on the star's equator with an airplane traveling at 1,000 kilometers per hour, we could only complete this journey in 850 years. If the world was about the size of a 10-centimeter tennis ball, the UY Scuti would be a giant sphere about 1520 meters (over 1.5 kilometers) in diameter.

We could take this giant star from where it was and put it in the solar system, instead of the Sun; UY Scuti swallows Mercury, Earth, Mars, Venus, and Jupiter, and the walls of the star's circle come between Saturn and Uranus.

UY Scuti, the 38th star observed in Kalkan constellation, can be seen only a few degrees north of the Gamma Scuti star, which can be found in this region and even seen with the naked eye. As with all the other giant stars, the disk surrounding UY Scuti and surrounding the star, like a halo, makes it difficult to determine the exact size of the star. For this reason it is stated that the magnitude measurement may have a margin of error of 192, but the astronomical authorities consider UY Scuti to be the greatest star of the universe we can see.

UY discovered Scuti first in 1860 using the German astronomer Bonn Observatory. However, a definitive statement of its magnitude was obtained in 2012 by the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile's Atacama Desert. After that date, UY Scuti, who left behind previous record-breaking giants such as Betelgeuse, VY Canis Majoris and NML Cygni, is currently defined as the greatest star of the universe.