Talk:List of largest stars/workpage
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editAbsolute size
editAngular size
edit- Sun - our local star - 0.5° (30 arcmin) - [1][2]
- R Doradus/P Doradus - red giant - 0.057±0.005 arcsec - in 1997 found to be larger than Betelgeuse in apparent size [2]
- Betelgeuse - red supergiant - 0.044 arcsec - first star apart from Sun to have apparent diameter measured (in 1920); second largest after R/P Doradus [2]
Other
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editShould other stars between 500 to 700 R☉ be added? If so, I would also update one of the caveats to: «A survey of the Magellanic Clouds has catalogued most of the red supergiants and 75 of them are larger than the 700 R☉ (974,000,000 km; 3.3 AU; 605,000,000 mi) cutoff point of this table, with the largest at 1,200–1,300.» ----Joey P. - THE OFFICIAL 02:23, 10 October 2017 (UTC)
IRC+10420
editUpscale IRC+10420 up to 1,342 R☉ (beating HR 5171's title as largest known yellow star) because the page says it is one of the largest stars (>500 R☉). --Joey P. - THE OFFICIAL (Visit/Talk/Contribs) 04:49, 27 October 2017 (UTC)
Please stop sorting by smaller estimate...
edit...it doesn't relate well to the topic ("largest"). Invisible Robot Fish is JoeyPknowsalotaboutthat's old sleeper account (talk) 12:38, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
- ^ "Angular Diameter". COSMOS - The SAO Encyclopedia of Astronomy. Swinburne University of Technology - Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing. Retrieved 2014-11-11.
- ^ a b c eso (11 March 1997). "The Biggest Star in the Sky". European Southern Observatory. eso9706 — Science Release.
- ^ Brown, R. Hanbury; (1968). "Measurement of Stellar Diameters". Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics. 6: 13. Bibcode:1968ARA&A...6...13B. doi:10.1146/annurev.aa.06.090168.000305.
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