How many suns can fit into the biggest star?

A: The biggest star size-wise is VY Canis Majoris, which is about 2,000 times wider than our sun. You can fit 9.3 billion of our suns into VY Canis Majoris. This star is about 4,900 light years from Earth and is found in the constellation Canis Major.Aug 31, 2016 read more

You can fit 9.3 billion of our suns into VY Canis Majoris. This star is about 4,900 light years from Earth and is found in the constellation Canis Major. This constellation represents one of the two dogs that follow Orion. read more

The sun obviously has a solar radius of 1 solar radii (a solar radii is the radius of the sun). So just divide the volumes of each to how many of our suns can fit in VY Canis Majoris. R = (4/3 * pi * (2100)^3) / (4/3 * pi * (1)^3 R = 2100^3 R = 9,261,000,000 So the answer is about 9.3 billion suns can fit inside VY Canis Majoris. read more

You could fit our Sun inside R136a1 as many times as you could fit Earth inside Jupiter, and that's a jump in cosmic scale that astronomers honestly thought was impossible. The star is found in the R136 star cluster, located some 165,000 light-years away in our neighboring galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud. read more