Or is the Sun just one HUGE star?
2007-01-16 10:16:50 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Our sun is actually pretty small in comparison to other stars. While it's enormous to us, take a look at the video link to see just how small our sun is in comparison.
2007-01-16 10:26:16 · answer #1 · answered by xooxcable 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try this little experiment.
Place a Basketball about 15 ft away on the ground. Now hold a tennis ball about an inch from your nose and try to look at the basketball. Has the Tennis ball suddenly become BIGGER than the basketball? Why?
If you see a car from a plane, is it really only a couple of inches big? no.
So yes the sun (Sol) is a star. Just very very close to your nose. And all those other "Dots in the night sky" are also stars, some bigger and some smaller than our Sun. They are just very very far away.
2007-01-19 06:52:54 · answer #2 · answered by j_mcard1e 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, the Sun is the closest Star to Earth and rather small compared to other stars.
The next closest Star is AlphaCentari... and it's so far away that the light that it emits takes 8000 years to reach us. It is 2 times as big as the sun.
2007-01-16 10:22:09 · answer #3 · answered by hyperhealer3 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Sun is an average sized star. The next closest is Proxima Centauri, part of the Alpha Centauri triple star system, about 3.4 light years away, (not 8000 as mentioned in another answer).
2007-01-16 12:48:55 · answer #4 · answered by Terracinese 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Part 1 - Yes.
Part 2 - No. Some smaller, some larger, but yes, far away.
Part 3 - No. Our sun is relatively young and small as far as stars go.
2007-01-16 10:24:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stars are larger han the earth if they fall on the earth our earth will be blasted so they are fall ed Some where else so actually stars are compared with atoms and in that atoms are compared as the stars when the electrons get low charge then they come closer to the neutron so stars if their energy is lowered they will rotated and burst at sun.
2016-05-23 22:06:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are a range of different sizes, all very far away. Some are much bigger than the sun, some are smaller
2007-01-16 10:23:37 · answer #7 · answered by PJ 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The sun is average, there are stars that are thousands of times bigger.
Watch this and be amazed at how big
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZLNpKkbsqw
2007-01-16 10:25:55 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The sun is just one big star. Well actually not that big but the constant explosions that happen on its surface make it look bigger.
2007-01-16 10:25:14 · answer #9 · answered by Charlie 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Check this You-Tube video about that.
2007-01-16 10:26:38 · answer #10 · answered by Scythian1950 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋