What if UY Scuti was our sun?

What if UY Scuti was our sun?

It’s a pulsating star that swells and shrinks periodically, usually shining about 400,000 times brighter than our Sun. If UY Scuti took our Sun’s place at the center of our solar system, it would engulf everything as far out as the orbit of Saturn.

How hot is UY Scuti compared to the sun?

Observation data Epoch J2000 Equinox J2000
Radius	1,708±192 R ☉
Luminosity	340,000+290,000 −160,000 L ☉
Surface gravity (log g)	−0.5 cgs
Temperature	3,365±134 K

Observation data Epoch J2000 Equinox J2000
Radius	1,708±192 R ☉
Luminosity	340,000+290,000 −160,000 L ☉
Surface gravity (log g)	−0.5 cgs
Temperature	3,365±134 K

Is there a star bigger than the sun?

It turns out that our Sun is an average sized star. There are bigger stars, and there are smaller stars. We have found stars that are 100 times bigger in diameter than our sun. Truly, those stars are enormous.

What is bigger than the sun?

Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. Jupiter’s mass is nearly 1000 times that of the Sun. Sirius, Pollux, Alpha Centauri A, UY Scuti etc. are some examples of stars bigger than the sun.

Which is the heaviest star?

That honor goes to R136a1, which weighs in at about 300 times the mass of the sun but only about 30 solar radii.

Which is the biggest thing in universe?

The biggest single entity that scientists have identified in the universe is a supercluster of galaxies called the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall. It’s so wide that light takes about 10 billion years to move across the entire structure.

What is hottest thing in the universe?

The dead star at the center of the Red Spider Nebula has a surface temperature of 250,000 degrees F, which is 25 times the temperature of the Sun’s surface. This white dwarf may, indeed, be the hottest object in the universe.

How big is the Milky Way?

Which star is the hottest Giant?

The hottest known star, WR 102, is one such Wolf-Rayet, sporting a surface temperature more than 35 times hotter than the Sun.

What is the biggest galaxy?

Earlier this year, astronomers found an absolute monster of a galaxy. Lurking some 3 billion light-years away, Alcyoneus is a giant radio galaxy reaching 5 megaparsecs into space. That’s 16.3 million light-years long, and it constitutes the largest known structure of galactic origin.

How many Earths are in the Sun?

Size and Distance Many stars are much larger – but the Sun is far more massive than our home planet: it would take more than 330,000 Earths to match the mass of the Sun, and it would take 1.3 million Earths to fill the Sun’s volume. The Sun is about 93 million miles (150 million kilometers) from Earth.

What color is the Sun?

The color of the sun is white. The sun emits all colors of the rainbow more or less evenly and in physics, we call this combination “white”. That is why we can see so many different colors in the natural world under the illumination of sunlight.

Is Jupiter a failed Sun?

“Jupiter is called a failed star because it is made of the same elements (hydrogen and helium) as is the Sun, but it is not massive enough to have the internal pressure and temperature necessary to cause hydrogen to fuse to helium, the energy source that powers the sun and most other stars.

What is hotter than the Sun?

And the answer: lightning. According to NASA, lightning is four times hotter than the surface of the sun. The air around a stroke of lightning can peak at 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit, while the surface of the sun is around 11,000 degrees.

Is Sun bigger than black hole?

The black hole spotted closest to Earth is about 10 times more massive than the Sun and is located about 1600 light-years away in the constellation Ophiuchus, which makes it three times closer to Earth than the previous record holder, an X-ray binary in the constellation of Monoceros.

What is the coldest star?

According to a new study, a star discovered 75 light-years away is no warmer than a freshly brewed cup of coffee. Dubbed CFBDSIR 1458 10b, the star is what’s called a brown dwarf.

What old is the Sun?

Our Sun is 4,500,000,000 years old. That’s a lot of zeroes. That’s four and a half billion.

How big is a black hole?

Stellar-mass black holes are typically in the range of 10 to 100 solar masses, while the supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies can be millions or billions of solar masses. The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A*, is 4.3 million solar masses.

How many of our suns could fit in UY Scuti?

Thus, as many as 5 billion Suns can fit inside UY Scuti.

Can UY Scuti fit in our solar system?

Regardless, UY Scuti is still one of the biggest known stars and if UY Scuti were placed in the Solar System, replacing our sun, its photosphere would reach the orbit of Saturn. To get a better sense of the scale of UY Scuti, more than 4 quadrillion Earth’s could fit into it.

How big would UY Scuti be in our solar system?

UY Scuti is thought to have a mass only slightly more than 30 times the mass of our sun. But its radius is thought to be something like 1,700 times greater than the radius of the sun. That would make this star is nearly eight astronomical units across – that’s eight times the distance between the Earth and sun.

What would happen if UY Scuti exploded?

Originally Answered: What would happen if UY Scott got into Supernova? UY Scuti will definitely explode as a supernova one day, but by the standards of supernovas it will be an “ordinary” one. That’s because the power of a supernova depends on its mass, not size.