Extreme object
UY Scuti
UY Scuti is a star 5 871 light-years away.
It is on the live 3D map, where it really is.
One of the largest known stars, about 909 times the Sun's radius. In the Sun's place, its surface would reach past Mars or even the asteroid belt.
Key facts
- Kind
- Star
- Distance
- 5 871 light-years
See it from here
Too faint for the eye; a telescope, or a long photograph, shows it.
How the map draws it
Drawn as a ring at its measured distance; the star itself is a point at this scale — the kind of thing, not this exact one.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UY_Scuti (infobox: position, distance and the V magnitude range 8.29 to 10.56; the opening paragraph for the radius of 909 Suns, the maximum brightness and the Mars and asteroid-belt comparison; read 2026-11-05)
This page is built from the same records and words as the map's card, and carries no live numbers.