The star lies near the center of theMilky Way, roughly 9,500light-yearsaway fromEarth. Located within the constellation Scutum, UY Scuti is a hypergiant star. Hypergiants — larger than supergiants and giants —
Of all the mass contained within the solar system,NASA saysthat 99.8% of it is locked up in the sun. Around 4.6 billion years ago a disk of gas and dust collapsed to birth our star and what material didn't go into the sun was leftover as a planetarynebulafrom which the planets emerg...