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Approximately how many suns could fit inside UY Scuti?

Question #149794. Asked by BigTriviaDawg.
Last updated Sep 12 2023.
Originally posted Sep 12 2023 7:12 PM.

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UY Scuti is another star, somewhat larger than our solar system's sun! The answer to the question is about five billion!
UY Scuti (BD-12°5055) is an extreme red hypergiant or red supergiant star in the constellation Scutum. It is considered one of the largest known stars by radius and is also a pulsating variable star, with a maximum brightness of magnitude 8.29 and a minimum of magnitude 10.56. It has an estimated radius of 1,708 solar radii (1.188×10^9 kilometres; 7.94 astronomical units), thus a volume nearly 5 billion times that of the Sun. It is approximately 2.9 kiloparsecs (9,500 light-years) from Earth. If placed at the center of the Solar System, its photosphere would at least engulf the orbit of Jupiter.
link https://wiki2.org/en/UY_Scuti+Newton

Response last updated by psnz on Sep 12 2023.
Sep 12 2023, 7:13 PM
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