VV Cephei

VV Cephei is a eclipsing binary star in the Cepheus constellation. It is 5,000 light years from Earth. 

VV Cephei A is one of the largest known stars, being a red supergiant. Its diameter is more than a thousand times that of the Sun.https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008AJ....136.1312H It is orbited by VV Cephei B, a blue star with 1325 times the Solar radius. If VV Cephei A were placed in the center of our Solar System, its radius would reach past the orbit of Mars and the asteroid belt, nearly reaching Jupiter.

Related pages
 T Cephei
 MY Cephei
 Mu Cephei
 V354 Cephei
 RW Cephei
 VY Canis Majoris
 U Lacertae

References

Category:Red giants
Category:Binary stars
Category:Variable stars
Category:Supergiants