What is the biggest star ever discovered? The biggest star ever discovered is UY Scuti, a red supergiant located about 9,500 light-years away in the constellation Scutum. This supermassive star is so enormous, it defies everyday imagination. If you placed UY Scuti at the center of our solar system, its surface would extend past the orbit of Jupiter, engulfing Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, and even the asteroid belt. UY Scuti has a radius roughly 1,700 times greater than the Sun’s, making it the l

Journey to Wolf-Rayet Star VFTS 682 in Nearby Large Magellanic Cloud Galaxy FriendsofNASA.org: This sequence starts with a view of the Milky Way galaxy and its two small neighboring galaxies, the Magellanic Clouds. We zoom in towards the Large Magellanic Cloud and focus on the huge star formation region around the Tarantula Nebula. The final sequence shows a very detailed view, captured in visible and infrared light, of the dense star cluster R 136 and the very brilliant, but strangely isolated,