VY Canis Majoris.

VY Canis Majoris can be seen as the brightest star in the image above.

The Hypergiant VY Canis Majoris lies roughly 4,500 light years away from Earth in the constellation of Canis Major. It is one of the largest stars currently known within the Milky Way Galaxy, 1,700 times bigger than our Sun. Hypergiants are some of the biggest and most luminous stars in our known Universe, but only last for a few million years. Hypergaints like VY Canis Majoris are extremely rare stars to locate within our Galaxy. The first person to discover VY Canis Majoris was a French astronomer named Joseph Jerome Francois de Lalande in 1801.

The image above was captured at the Rutherford Observatory in Columbia University, New York, United States.

Link to image of VY Canis Majoris, captured at the Rutherford Observatory.