what are stars?

Question

my friend thinks they are just burning rocks but i think they are suns with planets around them....who is right?...or are we both wrong?

Answer 1

Stars are Suns of various sizes at many different distances from our planet. In most cases the light you see was actually emitted years ago as the stars are so far away that light travelling at 186000 miles per second takes too long to get here. Some may have planets and life around them.

Answer 2

A star is any massive gaseous body in outer space, just like the Sun. Unlike a planet, a star generates energy through nuclear fusion and therefore emits light. All stars except the Sun appear as shining points in the nighttime sky that twinkle because of the effect of the Earth's atmosphere and their distance from us. The Sun is also a star, but it is close enough to Earth to appear as a disk instead, and to provide daylight.

Answer 3

good question... but a star is a massive gaseous body in outer space, just like the Sun... unlike planets, a star generates energy through nuclear fusion and therefore emits light. All stars except the Sun appear as shining points in the nighttime sky that twinkle because of the effect of the Earth's atmosphere and their distance from us. The Sun is also a star, but it is close enough to Earth to appear as a disk instead, and to provide daylight.

Answer 4

Your friends are wrong- all the stars are just other suns- most probably with other planets. The sun is a star- just really close!

Answer 5

Stars are like the sun but not all have planets.

Answer 6

Suns in other solar systems and gallazies. However, not all have planets coircling around them. The nearest is a few light years away. That menas if we could travel the speed of light: 186,000 miles per second, it would take a few years to get there. Not ion our technology yet.

Answer 7

You are right (and wrong)! Stars are basicly balls of burning gas. They burn by making hydrogen turn into helium and create energy. The part that you are incorrect is that not all stars have planets around them.

Answer 8

Stars are suns, full of hot burning gas--no rocks inside.

Answer 9

You're right! However, not all stars have planets around them. All stars "burn" the element hydrogen in their cores in a process called 'fusion,' which is the same thing that happens in a hydrogen bomb when it explodes.

Answer 10

stars are massive, gaseous body held together by gravity and generally, they emit light. Normal stars generate energy by nuclear reactions in their interiors
Stars and suns are synonymous, there are other solar systems out there, in other galaxies, and possibly our own, but no, not all stars have planets orbitting around them.