VY Canis Majoris - The Largest Star in our Galaxy

wholy shit! not sure if it's true but from this video it looks like this star is bigger than our solar system! i read that it takes 5,000 years for its light to travel to earth, and our own sun's only takes 8 minutes. which means if you see the sun, and i hope you don't directly look at it or youll become blind, you are actually seeing our sun 8 minutes ago. VY Canis Majoris is "almost" on the verge of going supernova but when it blows it will take 5,000 years for us to see it, not sure about feel it though. but damn everything we see in the Universe is the PAST! crazy.