The Sun Is A Yellow Dwarf Star In The Solar System. It Is 99 Percent Of the Solar System's Mass. You Could Fit A Million Earths Inside It. In A Couple Billion Years, Its Size Will Balloon From 1.3 Million Km To 300 Million Km, And Then Shrink To 5,734 Km. Thats Smaller Than Earth! (Earth Is 12,742 Km.)
Sirius A Is The Brightest Star In The Sky. It Is Nearly Twice As Big As The Sun At 1.9 Million Km. It Is The 6th Closest Star To The Sun. It Has A Companion, Sirius B. Sirius B Is Much Smaller Than Sirius A, At Only 11,000 km.
Achernar Is An Oddly Shaped Star. But Its Over 15 Million Km In Diameter! It Looks Like An Egg Because It Spins So Fast. (Some Of This Activity Is Seen In The Solar System, With Dwarf Planet Haumea.)
Polaris Is The North Star. It Is About 52 Million km. It has 2 Companions, Polaris Ab And Polaris Bb. There Is Also A "South Star" Called Polaris Austrailius. Another Fact, It Was Not Always The North Star, And It Will Not Be The North Star Sometime later.
Alintak Is A Star In Orion's Belt. It Is A Blue Supergiant With A Diameter Of 84 Million Km. Little Is Known About This Tool In Orion's Belt.
Mira Is A Famous Star. It Is About 300 Million Km. Its Name Means "Wonderful". It Created The Class Of Mira Variables, Since Its A Varible Star.
Antares Is The Star I Named My Cat After. It Is A HUGE Star With A Diameter Of 950 Million Km. It Is The 15th Brightest Star In The Sky. Imagine A Spacecraft Orbiting Just Outside Its Corona!
Betelgeuse Is Grandpa's Favorite Star. It Is A HUGER Star With A Diameter Of 1.6 Billion Km. Someone Thought This Star Had A Cool Name, So They Made A Movie Called Beetlejuice.
Mu Cephei Or Herschel's Garnet Star Is An Even HUGER Star With A Diameter Of Almost 1.9 Billion Km. It Is Among The Largest Stars Known.
VY Canis Majoris Is Just Humongus. It Has A Mean Diameter Of 2 Billion Km. It Was Once The Largest Star, Untill Other Large Stars Were Discovered. Some Sorces Still State This As The Largest Star.
NML Cygni Is One Of The Largest Stars Up To Date. It Has A Diameter Of About 2.1 Billion Km. No One Knows Its Real Size, But It Is A Huge Star.
UY Scuti Is The Largest Star Up To Date. It Has A BIG BOOMEROO DIAMETER OF 2.4 BILLION KM! Upon Its Discovery, It Surpassed Stephenson 2 18 Wich Is Currently The 3rd Largest At 2.399 Billion km.
Size comparisons, discriptions, and video where the work of AJ Kling.