The Guardian (bless them!) today published a double page photo of a hyper-giant star that is 1.1bn miles across - 1,300 times bigger in diameter than the sun. Worryingly they describe this as "One of the 10 biggest objects yet to be found in the solar system". 
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Couldn't see the darn thing last night and its not in the sky this morning. How mysterious is that?
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