VV Cephei
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A now outdated comparison of star sizes, with VV Cephei A as the second largest in the 6th slide.
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(Outdated) The Sun compared to VV Cephei A.
VV Cephei is a eclipsing binary star in the Cepheus constellation. It is 5,000 light years from Earth.
VV Cephei A is one of the largest known stars, being a red supergiant. Its diameter is more than a thousand times that of the Sun.[1] It is orbited by VV Cephei B, a blue star with 13–25 times the Solar radius. If VV Cephei A were placed in the center of our Solar System, its radius would reach past the orbit of Mars and the asteroid belt, nearly reaching Jupiter.
VV Cephei Media
Cepheus constellation crop VV Cephei location
A visual band light curve for one of the eclipses of VV Cephei, adapted from Hopkins et al. (2015)
