What is HV 888?
[[File:The_red_supergiant_HV888_in_LMC.png|thumb|250px|The red supergiant HV 888 is the yellowish star in the middle of the picture]] '''HV 888''' (also known as '''WOH S140'''), is a [[red supergiant]] [[star]] in the [[Magellanic Clouds|Large Magellanic Cloud]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=HV 888|url=http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-id|access-date=2022-11-16|website=simbad.u-strasbg.fr}}</ref> It is among the largest known stars. It has a [[solar radius]] from over 1,374 to 1,584 times that of the [[Sun]]. It is one of the most [[Luminosity|luminous]] of its type. Its luminosity is nearly 300,000 to over 500,000 times that of the [[Solar luminosity|luminosity of our Sun]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=van Loon|first1=Jacco Th|last2=Cioni|first2=Maria-Rosa L.|last3=Zijlstra|first3=Albert A.|last4=Loup|first4=Cecile|date=2005|title=An empirical formula for the mass-loss rates of dust-enshrouded red supergiants and oxygen-rich Asymptotic Giant Branch stars|journal=Astronomy & Astrophysics|volume=438|issue=1|pages=273–289|doi=10.1051/0004-6361:20042555|arxiv=astro-ph/0504379 |s2cid=16724272 |issn=0004-6361}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Kamath|first1=Devika|last2=Wood|first2=Peter R.|last3=Van Winckel|first3=Hans|date=2015-12-01|title=Optically Visible Post-AGB Stars, Post-RGB Stars and Young Stellar Objects in the Large Magellanic Cloud|journal=Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society|volume=454|issue=2|pages=1468–1502|doi=10.1093/mnras/stv1202|arxiv=1508.00670 |issn=0035-8711}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Davies|first1=Ben|last2=Crowther|first2=Paul A.|last3=Beasor|first3=Emma R.|date=2018-08-11|title=The luminosities of cool supergiants in the Magellanic Clouds, and the Humphreys-Davidson limit revisited|journal=Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society|volume=478|issue=3|pages=3138–3148|doi=10.1093/mnras/sty1302|arxiv=1804.06417 |issn=0035-8711}}</ref> The [[effective temperature]] is estimated to be around 3,500 [[Kelvin|K]]. If it was placed at the center of the [[Solar System]], its [[phot