The Largest Star in the Universe Is Bigger Than You Imagine

The Sun is enormous. But there is a star next to which it is barely a pixel. UY Scuti. Radius roughly 1,700 times the Sun's. Place it where our Sun sits and its surface extends past Jupiter's orbit. Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars — all inside one star. Its mass is only 7 to 10 times the Sun's. The air you're breathing is a thousand times denser. It's dying. The light we see tonight left before writing was invented. Just let it play. Silent abyss, stars, space, sleep documentary