UY Scuti holds the prestigious title of the largest known star ... clarity and depth in observing distant stars. (The James Webb Space Telescope is now the latest and greatest in this field.) ...

The giant star may be showing signs that it is just years away from exploding, a process we have never seen in detail. The largest stars ... hard to examine closely. Now, Jacco van Loon at Keele ...

The chief researcher and professor in the Sheffield team, Paul Crowther, told ‘Astronomy Now’: “Because ... Among the largest known stars previously known were the Pistol Star, between ...