Talk:List of largest stars/workpage

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Angular size

• Sun - our local star - 0.5° (30 arcmin) -
• R Doradus/P Doradus - red giant - 0.057±0.005 arcsec - in 1997 found to be larger than Betelgeuse in apparent size
• Betelgeuse - red supergiant - 0.044 arcsec - first star apart from Sun to have apparent diameter measured (in 1920); second largest after R/P Doradus

Other

• The first seven stars other than the Sun with their angular sizes determined were done in 1920 by Michelson and Pease [1]

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Should other stars between 500 to 700 R_☉ be added? If so, I would also update one of the caveats to: «A survey of the Magellanic Clouds has catalogued most of the red supergiants and 75 of them are larger than the 700 R_☉ (974,000,000 km; 3.3 AU; 605,000,000 mi) cutoff point of this table, with the largest at 1,200–1,300.» ----Joey P. - THE OFFICIAL 02:23, 10 October 2017 (UTC)

IRC+10420

Upscale IRC+10420 up to 1,342 R_☉ (beating HR 5171's title as largest known yellow star) because the page says it is one of the largest stars (>500 R_☉). --Joey P. - THE OFFICIAL ^{(Visit/Talk/Contribs)} 04:49, 27 October 2017 (UTC)

Please stop sorting by smaller estimate...

...it doesn't relate well to the topic ("largest"). Invisible Robot Fish is JoeyPknowsalotaboutthat's old sleeper account (talk) 12:38, 2 February 2019 (UTC)