VY Canis Majoris

VY Canis Majoris is the largest known star in the Milky Way and also one of the most luminous. It is a red hypergiant located about 1,500 parsecs (4,900 light years) from Earth in the constellation Canis Major. It will blow itself up as a hypernova explosion in the next 100,000 years, but no hypergiant is close enough to Earth to pose such a threat.