2007-03-12 23:51:50 · 12 answers · asked by Tan I 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
cos they are a few miles away !, some dont exist but the light is still travelling to us !
2007-03-12 23:54:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
all of these people are right, stars are very far away, but here is something interesting to think about too. stars are light years away. light travels at 186,000 miles a second, thats pretty fast. so a star that is lets just say 25 light years away, the light from this star takes 25 years to reach us. so when you look up into the sky you are looking into the past. you are seeing stars the way they used to be. if one of these stars explodes you wont see it till years afterwards. pretty neat huh!!! same thing with the sun, if the sun exploded, we wouldnt see it till eight minutes later. so as you can see stars are very very far away!!!!
2007-03-13 09:54:01 · answer #2 · answered by Bones 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
think of yourself in an aeroplane looking down on a single houseyou most probably wont be able to see much. now think of yourself on earth lol, looking up at the nearest sun next to ours, it bright but it a hell of a lot of light years awaycan you imagine traveling to our nearest galaxy whice is 2.2 million light years away. thats travelling at the speed of light for 2.2 million years and thats how long it takes the light from this gallaxy to get to us. for all we know the galaxy does not exist any more. think again about the other 500 million or so galaxys in our universe that we know about. its big isnt it??? the stars that we look at in the sky are mostly in our galaxy the milkyway, and even these stars are so far away that they look so tiny. just thought id give you a little insight into what is out there. see ya
2007-03-13 07:01:30 · answer #3 · answered by joey h 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they are so far away, our nearest star looks large (the sun) but the next nearest star is over a light-year away. One Light year is 5.879 trillion miles.
2007-03-13 06:55:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are too far away that's why.
The nearest star with the earth is the sun.
2007-03-13 06:55:32 · answer #5 · answered by emi79 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its so so far from Earth , that is lot of light years awya from us.Thats Y it looks so tiny.
2007-03-13 06:56:18 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they are far away from where you are seeing them.
2007-03-13 06:53:45 · answer #7 · answered by WC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because they are very far away, Brainiac.
if that whole why hot things burn is still giving you trouble, be sure to ask.
2007-03-13 06:55:09 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they are far far far away from you.
2007-03-13 06:56:49 · answer #9 · answered by Vidhi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They far away.
2007-03-13 06:53:31 · answer #10 · answered by EAT! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋