Meet the NEW Largest Star in the Universe!

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What is the largest star in the universe? The answer will completely shatter your sense of scale. We're counting down the 5 most colossal stars ever discovered — from the ancient red giants visible to the naked eye, to a star so absurdly large it would swallow Saturn's entire orbit. Every single one of them makes our Sun look like a grain of sand. And the one sitting at the top of the list? Astronomers nearly missed it entirely. This video covers stellar evolution, nuclear fusion, hydrostatic equilibrium, and the science behind how ordinary stars transform into the largest objects in the known universe — finishing with the reigning champion: Stephenson 2-18, clocking in at 2,149 solar radii. Whether you're here for the mind-bending scale, the astrophysics, or just to have your brain completely broken — welcome. You're in the right place. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Giant Stars 02:48 Mu Cephei — The Garnet Star 05:32 Antares — The Rival of Mars 08:17 VY Canis Majoris — Former Record Holder 11:23 UY Scuti — The Dethroned King 15:18 Stephenson 2-18 — The Largest Known Star ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎵 MUSIC https://youtu.be/XWETPlVBQdo?si=lAfN3KTYwwgQIS0l https://youtu.be/-Aq8PUPlbxU?si=bzg4RAxAxzbP5DuB https://youtu.be/iuMBV3j55-I?si=0yStk9FIELGS_xcA ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📡 FOOTAGE & IMAGE CREDITS All visual content used in this video is either original, licensed, or sourced from publicly available archives provided by space agencies for educational and journalistic use. Full credits below: ◉ NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) All NASA content is in the public domain unless otherwise noted. → images.nasa.gov → nasa.gov ◉ NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific visualizations and animations produced by NASA's Goddard CILab team. → nasa.gov/centers/goddard ◉ NASA Scientific Visualization Studio (SVS) High-resolution space animations and data visualizations. → svs.gsfc.nasa.gov ◉ NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory X-ray imagery of stellar remnants and supernova remnants. → chandra.harvard.edu ◉ ESA — European Space Agency Space imagery and mission footage used under ESA's Terms of Use for educational content. → esa.int ◉ ESA/Hubble (NASA & ESA) Hubble Space Telescope imagery, jointly operated by NASA and ESA. → esahubble.org ◉ NASA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Infrared imagery from the Webb Telescope, operated by NASA, ESA, and CSA. → webbtelescope.org ◉ Space Engine (spaceengine.org) Universe simulator used for original scene recreation and spatial visualization. Space Engine is a proprietary software; all scenes recorded are original productions. → spaceengine.org ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 FAIR USE DISCLAIMER This video is made purely for educational and informational purposes. Some footage and images used are sourced from publicly funded space agencies (NASA, ESA, CSA) and are in the public domain or available under open licenses for non-commercial educational use. Where copyrighted material is used, it falls under Fair Use as defined under Section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Act, for the purposes of commentary, education, and research. No copyright infringement is intended. If you are a rights holder and have a concern, please contact us directly before filing a claim. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔭 ABOUT THIS CHANNEL We make videos about the universe — its scale, its science, and the discoveries that keep rewriting everything we thought we knew. If that sounds like your kind of thing, subscribe. New videos regularly. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #space #universe #stars #astrophysics #astronomy #nasavideos #hubble #jameswebbtelescope #solarsystem #scienceexplained #stellarevolution #uyscuti #stephenson218 #antares #vycanisMajoris #redgiant #redsupergiant #hypergiant #spacefacts #cosmology #nasa #esa #jwst #spacescience #educationalvideo #mindblowing #spaceengine #largeststar #universeexplained #spacevideo #sciencevideo