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When you look at the night sky, all the stars seem like identical points. But among them hide true cosmic giants — stars so enormous that if one took the place of our Sun, it would swallow Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, and even Jupiter! In this video, we embark on a thrilling journey through the world of the largest stars ever discovered by humanity. You'll learn about the legendary red supergiants — Antares, Betelgeuse, and the Garnet Star — meet the hypergiant in the constellation Canis Major, and find out why the famous "biggest star from the internet" turned out to be half the size everyone thought. The main hero of the video is F-01, a new contender for the title of the largest reliably measured star in our galaxy, discovered in 2024. Its radius is about 1500 solar radii, and its volume exceeds the Sun's by 3.6 billion times! We'll show why this giant perfectly matches the limit predicted by physics, and why it's more reliable than previous disputed record-holders like Stephenson 2-18. You'll also learn how astronomers measure stars thousands of light-years away in the first place, why a star's size and mass are completely different things, and what fate awaits these colossi. And also — why the iron in our blood and the oxygen we breathe were once forged in the depths of long-dead giants. Get ready for vivid comparisons that will turn your understanding of the scale of the Universe upside down!