TLDR anything above 1000parsec (~3300 ly) is fairly safe. You might see a slightly increased risk of cancer from the radiation in those alive at the time of the explosion I guess. Edit: Also, VY canis Majoris is nowhere near the largest known star. See list.
When a star explodes, the event is known as a supernova. This does not happen at random. Instead, a star first depletes its hydrogen supply, expands into a red giant, supergiant, or hypergiant,…
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It’s currently a red hypergiant and is slowly nearing its death. Once out of the power to fuse more atoms, its core will collapse and the outer layers of the star will explode in a colossal supernova. The remnant will either be a neutron star or a black hole. VY Canis Majoris is at the end of its life.
8/25/2008 · It is not sure how much mass will VY Canis Majoris eject during its explosion – it may lose more than 90% of its current mass and form a neutron star near Oppenheimer-Volkov limit or lose .
VY Canis Majoris is going to continue “dieting” until the end. Its end will come as a violent supernova explosion, which should happen, cosmologically speaking, very soon. Maybe in a thousand year or, maybe, in a few hundred thousand. When it dies the bright explosion will be viewable from Earth.
What will happen when VY Canis Majoris dies? Among the largest class of stars, known as hypergiants, is the star VY Canis Majoris . This star, located in our Milky Way galaxy, is 3,600 times the diameter of the Sun. When it dies, the resulting explosion will release more energy than 100 supernovae and emit enormous quantities of gamma rays. …
198 rows · 1/13/2005 · VY Canis Majoris : 1,420 ± 120: AD: Used to be described as the largest …
