R Doradus [SEP] constellation
R Doradus
R Doradus (HD 29712 or P Doradus) is the name of a red giant Mira variable star in the far-southern constellation Dorado, although visually it appears more closely associated with the constellation Reticulum. Its distance from Earth is . Having a uniform disk diameter of arcsec, it is currently believed to be the extrasolar star with the largest apparent size as viewed from Earth. The estimated diameter of R Doradus is 515 ± 70 million km (3.46 AU) or times the diameter of the Sun.
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