Stephenson 2-18 (also called Stephenson 2 DFK 1 or RSGC2-01) is an extreme red hypergiant star in the constellation Scutum. It Is very commonly incorrectly touted as the largest star ever discovered, for a 2020 estimate inaccurately placed its size at 2,150 Solar Radii, which a star that big literally cannot exist. It is one of the most luminous stars known. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Radius (in Solar Radii): ~1,300 R<\/em>\u2609<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n Diameter (in Kilometers): 1,809,600,000 km<\/p>\n\n\n\n Distance (in Light Years): 18,900 ly<\/p>\n\n\n\n Spectral type: M5 (Red)<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Stephenson 2-18 (also called Stephenson 2 DFK 1 or RSGC2-01) is an extreme red hypergiant star in the constellation Scutum. It Is very commonly incorrectly touted as the largest star ever discovered, for a 2020 estimate inaccurately placed its size at 2,150 Solar Radii, which a star that big literally cannot exist. It is one of the most luminous stars… Continue reading Stephenson 2-18<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-red-hypergiant-stars","category-stars","category-stars-in-the-constellation-scutum","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77,"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/77"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestarguru.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}