The biggest known star is UY Scuti, about 1,700 times larger than the sun.(Image credit: Philip Park (CC BY-SA 3.0)) However, all stellar sizes are estimates. "The complication with stars is that they have diffuse edges," astronomer Jillian Scudder of the University of Sussex wrote forT...
What Are Wolf-Rayet Stars? Types of Wolf-Rayet Stars How Do We See Wolf-Rayet stars? The Role of Cosmic Dust What Is the Biggest and Brightest Wolf-Rayet Star?The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) recently observed in stunning detail a Wolf-Rayet star, the prelude to a supernova —...