what is the difference between a star and a planet?

Answer 1

A star is a huge sphere of very hot, glowing gas. Stars produce their own light and energy by a process called nuclear fusion.

The Planets (also known as The Planets Suite), opus 32, [1] is a seven-movement orchestral suite by the English composer Gustav Holst, written between 1914 and 1916. Notable for its elaborate score for large orchestra with rare instruments, The Planets Suite has been the most-performed composition by an English composer.[1] Its first complete public performance was on October 10, 1920 in Birmingham, with Appleby Matthews conducting. However, an earlier premiere occurred during World War I on September 29, 1918, in London's Royal Albert Hall, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult at the request of Gustav Holst.[1]

The elaborate score of The Planets produces unusual, [2] complex sounds by using rare instruments[2] and multiples of instruments in the large orchestra (like Mahler's Sixth 1906), including: 3 oboes, 3 bassoons, 2 piccolos, 2 harps, bass oboe, 2 timpani players, glockenspiel, celesta, xylophone, tubular bells, and pipe organ (see "Orchestration" below). Holst had been influenced by Stravinsky (Firebird), [3] who used 4 oboes and 4 bassoons in his Rite of Spring (1912-1913) and by Schoenberg's 1909 composition titled "Five Pieces for Orchestra".[3]

Recordings of The Planets suite have been made by many renowned conductors.

Answer 2

Stars are a collection of burning gases that give off light, some with planets orbiting and some without. A planet is a body that orbits a star. They generally have atmosphere and they only reflect light. In the night sky, if you look up you can see the difference. The light from a star "twinkles" while the light from a planet is steady.

Answer 3

Stars and planets are traditionally differentiated based on two properties:

(i) Whether or not they undergo nuclear reactions that burn hydrogen in their cores. Stars do this; planets don't. In order to have high enough temperatures in the core to burn hydrogen, an object needs to have a mass of at least 75 or so times that of Jupiter. Anything more massive than that is automatically considered a star.

(ii) The way they form. Stars form when a cloud of gas, out in a nebula or other region of interstellar space, collapses under the influence of gravity. Planets, on the other hand, form when material in the disk around a pre-existing star begins to condense around rock/ice cores. You can have situations where the entire planet is almost completely rock/ice/water (such as the Earth), or situations where a large amount of gas is subsequently attracted to the rock/ice core (such as Jupiter, Saturn, etc.).

Answer 4

A star is formed by a cloud of gas in a region of interseller space collaspes under the influence of gravity.
And a planet on the other hand, form when material in the disk around a pre-existing star begins to condense around rock/ice cores.

Answer 5

A star is an object in space made of very hot plasma. A planet is a celestial body that,

(a) is in orbit around a star;
(b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a round shape; and
(c) has cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit

Answer 6

Star = a giant flaming ball of gas that is constantly undergoing a Nuclear fission

Planet = a smaller giant ball of rock (usually nickel or iron) that is much bigger than an asteroid, but still orbits a star. These balls usually have some sort of atmosphere of a gas of mixes of oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, and carbon. These balls sometimes even have satellites of their own, called moons.

Answer 7

a star produces light under nuclear reaction a planet does not and they other is the difference in how they form

Answer 8

A star is burning and a planet is not.

Answer 9

a star is a ball of burning gas, like the sun, while a planet is big ball of mass either in a gas or solid form.

Answer 10

The Sun is a star. It gives off it's own light by being on FIRE.

Planets...don't make their own light...they reflect the light of stars.