The Roanoke Star holds its title through five stacked qualifiers. Tap a word to drop that
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The Roanoke Star is thelargest,free-standing,man-made,illuminatedstareast of the Mississippi.
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Sources & notes
Facts on the Roanoke Star, El Paso's Star on the Mountain, and Palmanova drawn from Wikipedia, the World Record
Academy, and Visit Roanoke VA. No official body tracks "largest non-illuminated man-made star-shaped structure" —
Palmanova is the strongest documented candidate, not a certified record holder. Stellar radii for hypergiants like
Stephenson 2-18 and UY Scuti are genuinely disputed in the astronomical literature. Photos: Roanoke Star and
Palmanova via Wikimedia Commons; El Paso's star by Carol M. Highsmith, Library of Congress (public domain);
Antares artist's impression (stand-in for Stephenson 2-18, which has never been directly imaged) by ESO/M.
Kornmesser, CC BY 4.0; the Sun via NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. Built for fun, not for a courtroom.