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If English is your first language you should consider voluntarily removing yourself from the gene pool.

2007-06-12 15:18:13 · answer #1 · answered by Uncle Al 5 · 3 0

Planets don't have stars. So your question is one where I just go "huh?"
If you mean which is the largest star in the galaxy, then do you mean most massive or widest? (I know its not the right word folks, but bear with me on this).

For most massive, its a toss-up between the Pistol Star (mass about 150 - 200 times the sun's) and LBV- 1806-20 (same mass, but could be a binary star system so it wouldn't count as the most massive). If the sun was a bag of sugar weighing 1 kilogram, then either of these stars would weigh as much as 2 halfback football players.

For widest, then it VY Canis Majoris at 1800 - 2100 the sun's diameter.
So if the sun was a marble 1 cm in diameter, then VY Canis Majoris would be 18 meters wide (I can't think of anything that large, but you can figure out something that would be that big for comparison).

2007-06-12 23:37:40 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

ummm

there are no stars in the planet i'm afraid. since even the smallest star is quite a bit bigger than earth.

if you mean in all of space or the universe then no polaris is not the right answer although polaris is pretty big. betelgeuse and antares are quite large to. i think someone said the pistol star is the biggest. there is an excellent video on youtube that demonstrates this, look it up or for a diagram go to http://www.rense.com/general72/size.htm for pictures.

hope this helps.

if you're talking about hollywood or something then put your question somewhere else and not in astronomy.

2007-06-12 22:51:27 · answer #3 · answered by Tim C 5 · 0 0

the words you have put in are incorrect. actually stars aren't present in planet. they are in space. in-case you wanted to know the biggest star in universe then here is the information.

The largest known star (in terms of mass and brightness) is called the Pistol Star. It is believed to be 100 times as massive as our Sun, and 10,000,000 times as bright! In 1990, a star named the Pistol Star was known to lie at the center of the Pistol Nebula in the Milky Way Galaxy. In 1995, it was suggested that the Pistol Star was so massive it was throwing off the mass that actually created the Pistol Nebula. Observations from the Hubble Space Telescope in 1997 confirmed the relationship between the star and the nebula. Astronomers are currently unsure how a star this massive could have formed or how it will act in the future.

2007-06-13 10:28:21 · answer #4 · answered by SIMONE 5 · 0 0

Your choice of words is incorrect, and that makes the question meaningless.


The Universe is everything out there in Outer Space including all of the galaxies.

Galaxies contain many, many stars.

Planets circle (orbit) around Stars in groupings called solar systems...

Moons orbit around Planets.

2007-06-12 22:32:21 · answer #5 · answered by zahbudar 6 · 1 0

There are no stars on planets. Stars are thousands of times larger than planets.

2007-06-12 22:42:17 · answer #6 · answered by eri 7 · 0 0

I don't think there is a star in a planet because i think the smallest star is the little bit more bigger than a planet. But is you mean in the Solar System, it might be the North Star.

2007-06-12 22:15:26 · answer #7 · answered by Catherine Yeung 2 · 0 3

What?

2007-06-12 22:22:20 · answer #8 · answered by eric l 6 · 0 0

pancakes???

2007-06-12 23:25:22 · answer #9 · answered by Bill 2 · 0 0

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