UY Scutis - The biggest star known to human

[McFreshfleisch]

So today I went out to VY Canis Majoris, the biggest known star I thought. But after I looked it up, it was just in third place. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sllQYsMsSR4 Wikipedia link in the description.
I found out, that UY Scutis is the new biggest known star to human right now. So I tried to find it in E with every single name possible for it. I didn't find it. But then I noticed, that there only should be Alpha, Beta and Delta Scutis.
But in-game we have a Zeta Scutis.
So could it be, that this system is what I was looking for? Has anybody ever been there?
Thanks for any answers you can bring
Fly safe!
CMDR McFreshfleisch

 

[CMDR AKIRA MASAKARI]

It is known that in the real galaxy VY Canis Majoris isn't the biggest star. In Elite Galaxy it is tough: the other bigger stars are either not in game, or unreacheable due to jumpranges (this last thing will be surpassed with jumponium).
Also VY Canis Majoris is in the right position of the galaxy and correctly reports the staggering 1420 solar radii, but other hypergiants are misplaced in game and with way inferioir volume. In my opinion they did quite a good job into rapresenting the galaxy, but beeing a videogame they couldn't implement 100% that is out there with 100% accuracy, also becouse real life measures have quite big errors (especially the furthest they are from us), and their description gets frequently changed of several hundred LY, spectrum, volume, etc. Only to cope with that they should have a dedicated team for no gain, and many player would lament they constantly messing with already discovered system composition and tagging.

 

[McFreshfleisch]

It is known that in the real galaxy VY Canis Majoris isn't the biggest star. In Elite Galaxy it is tough: the other bigger stars are either not in game, or unreacheable due to jumpranges (this last thing will be surpassed with jumponium).
Also VY Canis Majoris is in the right position of the galaxy and correctly reports the staggering 1420 solar radii, but other hypergiants are misplaced in game and with way inferioir volume. In my opinion they did quite a good job into rapresenting the galaxy, but beeing a videogame they couldn't implement 100% that is out there with 100% accuracy, also becouse real life measures have quite big errors (especially the furthest they are from us), and their description gets frequently changed of several hundred LY, spectrum, volume, etc. Only to cope with that they should have a dedicated team for no gain, and many player would lament they constantly messing with already discovered system composition and tagging.

Oh man, I would've loved to see it, but it's perfectly fine not to do so though They have done a great job indeed, considering that there are so much stars Just gotta get home again now, to be able to play the Horizons Beta :3 When it's finally available

 

[drkaii]

Very interesting theory! Go and make yourself famous by discovering it

The problem with big stars is they are often isolated far above or below our outside the galaxy. I think that's true of the majority of stars in the wikipedia list. Also, would be interesting if someone finds a procedural one bigger, not sure if they've been limited to a size below 1400x

 

[darkwolf79]

1400+ solar radii sounds extremely impressive.

346 solar radii is the biggest I've encountered myself so far, and that nearly ended me. (mainly because it was orbiting a heavier but rather small Wolf-Rayet Star)

A concerted effort to map super and hyper giants could be a worthwhile exploration target.
(Also of interest for non explorers who want to go sight seeing. Deep space Orca tours and the likes...)