Star facts
1.What is the biggest star known?
It has a radius of 950-1200 times the size of the Sun and is called VY Canis Majoris
What is radius?
A straight line from the centre to the circumference of a circle or sphere.
What is circumference?
The enclosing boundary of a curved geometric figure, especially a circle.
What is a geometric figure?
A geometric figure is any set of points on a plane or in space.
2. What is the smallest star known?
Currently the smallest star we have found is called OGLE-TR-122b. This star is around 96 times more massive than Jupiter
3. What is the hottest star known?
This bright white dwarf star's surface has been measured at greater than 200,000 degrees Celsius
Not named yet
4. What is the coldest star known?
WISE J085510.83-071442.5 with a temperature of minus 48 to minus 13 degrees
How is WISE J085510.83-071442.5 burning if its so cold?
5. What is the highest temperature of VY Canis Majoris?
~3,490[4] K
What does this “K” mean?
Kelvin
What is kelvin?
Kelvin is a type of measurement used for measuring how hot something is
6. Roughly how many stars are there?
There are about 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars in space
It has a radius of 950-1200 times the size of the Sun and is called VY Canis Majoris
What is radius?
A straight line from the centre to the circumference of a circle or sphere.
What is circumference?
The enclosing boundary of a curved geometric figure, especially a circle.
What is a geometric figure?
A geometric figure is any set of points on a plane or in space.
2. What is the smallest star known?
Currently the smallest star we have found is called OGLE-TR-122b. This star is around 96 times more massive than Jupiter
3. What is the hottest star known?
This bright white dwarf star's surface has been measured at greater than 200,000 degrees Celsius
Not named yet
4. What is the coldest star known?
WISE J085510.83-071442.5 with a temperature of minus 48 to minus 13 degrees
How is WISE J085510.83-071442.5 burning if its so cold?
5. What is the highest temperature of VY Canis Majoris?
~3,490[4] K
What does this “K” mean?
Kelvin
What is kelvin?
Kelvin is a type of measurement used for measuring how hot something is
6. Roughly how many stars are there?
There are about 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars in space