Scale of Earth, Sun, Rigel, and VY Canis Majoris. [full zoom at the end]

SecularAstronomer · 1.7M views · 2009 · 3:02

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Visually compares the scale of Earth, the Sun, Rigel, and VY Canis Majoris to illustrate astronomical size differences.

Linked by 9 independent sites, 2 of them widely read in the 2026-10 crawl of the open web, including ucl.ac.uk, universetoday.com, variable-stars.ru, apod.pl, galactika.info.