Are the stars , small suns , or they just reflect sun's light ?

Answer 1

I just answered this at my observatory I work at to a group of visiting students ..

All stars are suns .
All stars are the exact same type of object.
Our star is named the sun . But every star is the same object type! We just named ours different because it's in our solar system.

Even though stars are different sizes and colors they are all suns . And all stars have their own light . The only objects that reflect sunlight are planets and asteroids & moons .

Answer 2

Stars are suns. Planets reflect light, so you can see them in the night sky. A simple way to tell the difference is to see if they twinkle/flash, or if it is one constant color. A sun or star, emits light that can be broken down into several colors. put a prism or crystal into sunlight & see the diffrent colors it reflects?

A star from very far away sheds a large amount of light, but we actually see a small part of it. This is why they 'twinkle' diffrent colors.

When light hits something closer, then is reflected back, we see a more constsnt, solid color, as with planets.

Answer 3

Our Sun is one of numerous stars. Some are much bigger than it is, and some are smaller. They all generate their own light and are too distant to reflect any from our Sun. It is the planets and moons of the solar system that reflect the Sun's light.

Answer 4

They are stars that are much further from us than our solar unit the Sun. By classification actually the sun is one of the smaller stars. We see them as being small because they're farrrrrrr away and because the Sun is fixated at approximately the center of our orbit, which means that the variable of distance between earth and the sun is small at any given time of the year we are around the same distance from the sun with slight differences at certain points.

Answer 5

i know some askers are young children, and this question is one a young child might ask.

as many others have already said, the sun is a star, but stars have a very large variety of sizes and masses. stars form from clumps of gas which are about 76 percent hydrogen and 24 percent helium. gravity brings the clump together so it becomes denser and also hotter. when the density and temperature in the center is high enough, hydrogen nuclei will begin to collide and fuse. hydrogen is fused to form helium. the least massive stars never get beyond hydrogen fusion. stars the same mass as the sun are massive enough to compress the inactive helium core and begin to fuse helium into carbon, but the sun can not compress its core enough to fuse anything beyond carbon. the most massive stars are able to fuse atomic nuclei all the way to iron. the fusion of nuclei less massive than iron produce energy, but the nuclei more massive than iron require and do not produce energy. supernovae explosions produce a huge amount of particles called neutrinos. these neutrinos supply the energy required to form nuclei more massive than iron. it is this fusion of different atomic nuclei that produce the energy that makes them shine. the least massive stars fuse nuclei more slowly so last much longer. the most massive stars fuse nuclei more quickly so don't last very long.

look here:
http://en.wikipediea.org/wiki/Star

Answer 6

The stars emit light due to a process called 'nuclear fusion' through which lighter elements' nucei like that of Hydrogen's combine to form heavier and the energy released is in the form of light and heat. Every stars have their own light emission but they are so far that we see them smaller than sun. Hence u may call them small sun. Got it ?

Answer 7

the sun is a star...the others are just so far away they arent as bright. planets reflect the suns light, but the definition of a star is that it generates its own energy.

Answer 8

With all due respect..
What grade are you in ?
For you to be on the comuter like this, you should already know the answer.
All the stars in the sky are suns, large & small..
Some of what appear to be suns are actually distant galaxies
containing billions of suns...

Answer 9

They are suns, and a lot of them are anything but small -- many are larger than the Sun, and some quite a lot larger.

Answer 10

Bullz Eye is wrong. They arent in different galaxies. Other Galaxies are so immensely far away, you can not view an individual star in another Galaxy. Stars give off their own light, heat, and are not close enough to us to look bigger or brighter.