What is VV Cephei?
[[File:Star-sizes.jpg|thumb|A now outdated comparison of star sizes, with VV Cephei A as the second largest in the 6th slide.]] [[File:Sun and VV Cephei A.png|thumb|(Outdated) The Sun compared to VV Cephei A.]] '''VV Cephei''' is a [[eclipse|eclipsing]] [[binary star]] in the [[Cepheus (constellation)|Cepheus]] constellation.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.<ref>https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008AJ....136.1312H</ref> It is orbited by '''VV Cephei B''', a blue star with 13{{ndash}}25 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== {{reflist}} [[Category:Red giants]] [[Category:Binary stars]] [[Category:Variable stars]] [[Category:Supergiants]] {{physics-stub}}