Bananas for Scale

Stars

Celestial furnaces that light up the universe with unimaginable power.

The Sun

Our local star, a G-type main-sequence ball of plasma

Betelgeuse

A red supergiant on the brink of a supernova

UY Scuti

One of the largest known stars by radius

Proxima Centauri

The closest star to our solar system

Sirius

The brightest star in Earth's night sky

Rigel

A blue supergiant illuminating Orion's foot

Alpha Centauri A

The slightly bigger half of our nearest stellar neighbor

Polaris

The North Star that has guided travelers for millennia

Vega

The brilliant blue-white jewel of the summer sky

Aldebaran

The angry red eye of Taurus the Bull

Canopus

The second brightest star in the night sky

Arcturus

The brightest star in the northern celestial hemisphere