The Biggest Star

Largest Star by Massive : Pistol Star


-200 times of solar mass
-25000 light years far away


Largest Star by Luminosity : LBV 1806-20

-38 million solar luminosity
-30000-40000 light years far away

Largest Star by Radius : VY Canis Majoris


-1800 radii
-5000 light years far away




Massive-Star birth



Giant molecular cloud, GMC collapse because of the instability gravitational of the molecules.



And it became a protostar. Which some of them have larger mass than the sun but some don’t.




Things help to find angular size.

1.Inferometer

2. Telescope