2007-01-22 11:41:34 · 10 answers · asked by Yay Area 5 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
There is only one star in our solar system: The sun. The planets revolve around the sun. The stars that you see every night are light years away from our solar system, so there you go! Hope that helped.
2007-01-22 11:48:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The planets in our solar system are in orbit around the same star we are, so they are much closer to us than even the nearest star.
Our entire solar system is only about one eight-hundredth of a light year across, while the closest star outside our own sun is (the closest star is 4.2 light years away.
2007-01-22 13:53:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the gravity of a star is greater than a planet and if a star was as
close to earth as some of the planets in the solar system earth
would crash into the star
2007-01-22 12:04:02 · answer #3 · answered by osinamunatum 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Planets orbit the sun, for that they have to be close enough to feel the gravity of the sun, at most a few light hours. Stars are other suns, light years away (and some of them do have planets of their own)
2007-01-22 11:48:50 · answer #4 · answered by Vincent G 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's kind of a wierd question. I'm not exactly sure what kind of answer you're looking for.
The planets of our solar system formed from the spinning disk of material around our sun when it formed. This material coalesced in several areas to form large clumps. Many of these clumps eventually crashed into each other forming larger more isolated clumps, which eventually formed the planets we have today. This all happened relatively near our sun compared with the distance to the other nearby stars. That's just how it is...
2007-01-22 11:48:27 · answer #5 · answered by Arkalius 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
elementary! Even the classic Sumerians residing one thousand's of years in the past reported that the planets are closer than the celebs. it extremely is by way of fact while planets like Venus and Mars circulate around the sky, "fastened" stars are blocked out as they bypass earlier them. So the fastened stars could be at the back of (or farther away than) them. interior the comparable way you are able to tell the moon is closer than the sunlight by way of fact for the duration of an eclipse the moon blocks out the sunlight. of course interior the single thousand's of years because, there are greater progressed scientific skill to verify the best distances and positions of each and every of the heavenly bodies.
2016-12-16 11:02:45 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because stars--with the exception of our sun--are much further away than planets.
2007-01-22 13:31:35 · answer #7 · answered by aviophage 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, the nearest stars are about 100,000 times further than the planets.
2007-01-22 11:48:27 · answer #8 · answered by cosmo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess because our solar system is situated in the outer regions of the galaxy where stars are not to be found very close to each other. However, moving towards the center of Milky Way things become more crowded...
2007-01-22 12:01:38 · answer #9 · answered by Alexander K 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
um, because they are? i dont really get ur question
2007-01-22 11:49:23 · answer #10 · answered by amber 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋