What is bigger than the sun?

What is bigger than the sun?

Betelgeuse, a red giant, is about 700 times bigger than the sun and about 14,000 times brighter. “We have found stars that are 100 times bigger in diameter than our sun. Truly those stars are enormous,” NASA says on its SpacePlace website.

What Sun is the largest?

UY Scuti
Star/Biggest

How many Earths could fit in the sun?

1.3 million Earths
The volume of the sun is 1.41 x 1018 km3, while the volume of Earth is 1.08 x 1012 km3. If you divide the volume of the sun by the volume of the Earth, you get that roughly 1.3 million Earths can fit inside the sun.

Are there bigger Suns?

On a stellar scale, it’s really quite average — about half of the known stars are larger; half are smaller. The largest known star in the universe is UY Scuti, a hypergiant with a radius around 1,700 times larger than the sun.

What is the most massive object in the Solar System?

The sun is the largest and the most massive object in the solar system, but it is just a medium-sized star among the hundreds of billions of stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

Which is bigger the sun or the universe?

The Sun may seem incredibly big, but there are billions of things in the Universe, which are bigger than our Sun. Consider this; our Sun is considered an averaged sized star in the best-case scenario. There are enormous stars out there which are hundreds to thousands of times bigger than our Sun.

Is the Sun the largest star in the Solar System?

Though massive, the Sun still isn’t as large as other types of stars. It’s classified as a yellow dwarf star. The Sun’s magnetic field spreads throughout the solar system via the solar wind.

How big will the Sun be when it consumes the Earth?

Eventually, the Sun will consume the Earth. When all the Hydrogen has been burned, the Sun will continue for about 130 million more years, burning Helium, during which time it will expand to the point that it will engulf Mercury and Venus and the Earth. The Sun will one day be about the size of Earth.