universe are only making guesses based on their presuppositions. One of the largest stars we can see with the naked eye is a star located in the southern sky in the constellation Orion. The name of the star is Betelgeuse , pronounced beetle juice . It is the upper-left reddish star jus t above Orion’s belt of three stars. Betelgeuse is approximately 160 million times larger than our sun, with a diameter of approximately 250 million miles. If our earth were the size of a golf ball, by comparison, our sun would be a ball 15 feet high. Betelgeuse would be a ball 2 miles high! If there were a tunnel through the center of Betelgeuse, driving at 55 miles per hour, it would take us roughly 1,600 years to drive through that tunnel. [Remember, it would only take 193 years to drive from here to the sun.] If Betelgeuse was where our sun is; Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, and Jupiter’s orbits could all fit inside of it.
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