
This fatso is 1,420 times the diameter of our Sun. To put that in perspective, if VY Canis Majoris were the height of a 50—story skyscraper, the Sun would be a grapefruit, and the Earth would be a grain of sand 1 mm across.

This fatso is 1,420 times the diameter of our Sun. To put that in perspective, if VY Canis Majoris were the height of a 50—story skyscraper, the Sun would be a grapefruit, and the Earth would be a grain of sand 1 mm across.