Stars - Part 5

The largest known star is VY Canis Majoris; a red hypergiant star in the Canis Major constellation, located about 5,000 light-years from Earth. University of Minnesota professor Roberta Humphreys recently calculated its upper size at more than 2,100 times the size of the Sun.

From Wikipedia: "...between 1800 and 2100 solar radii..." Note that this means the radius is not known precisely.

Assuming 1800 solar radii. Also, the Sun has 109 times the radius (or diameter) of Earth. That results in this star having 1800 x 109 = about 200,000 times Earth's diameter. Take the cube of that, and you get a volume that is 7,500,000,000,000,000 (7.5 x 10¹⁵) times that of Earth. With the higher number (2100), you get 12,000,000,000,000,000 (12 x 10¹⁵).

A few other sources say it is closer to 11,666,192,832,000,000 Earths!”

That’s the biggest star that we know of, but the Milky way probably has dozens of stars that are even larger, obscured by gas and dust so we can’t see them.

So you can fit 11,666,192,832,000,000 Earths into that one star alone !!! – and then there are other’s that are even larger !!!

Now picture yourself being on one of those 11,666,192,832,000,000 Earths! … (and remember that’s only for 1 star – who’s knows how many Earths you could fit into the trillions of stars that are out there!)

… and the Bible says that God knows the number of hairs that are on your head! (Matthew 10:30)

So not only does God know how many stars there are, and what all of their names are but He even knows how small Earth is in comparison to most of those stars … so much so that in one particular star, where you can fit 11,666,192,832,000,000 Earths into it, He can still see us – and if that wasn’t enough – He even knows the number of hairs that are on our head!

With a God like that, we can see more clearly why Matthew 6:8 says that our Father knows the things we need of before we even ask Him!