Size
University of Minnesota Professor Roberta M. Humphreys originally estimated the radius of VY CMa at 1,800 to 2,100 solar radii, which would make it the largest known star by radius. However, a more recent VLTI direct measurement gives a radius of 1420 ± 120 solar radii.
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