are the stars in the night sky suns or planets?

Answer 1

suns for the most part
we can see the planets of this solar system, especially the ones further away from our sun than we are because they are reflecting light back towards us but planets of other solar systems do not reflect enough light for us to be able to see them

Answer 2

All stars are like the Sun, not like planets. However, planets in our solar system can look like stars in the sky to a person without a telescope. The very bright star you can see high in the west at sunset now and for the next couple of months is really the planet Venus, which will be obvious if you look at it with a telescope.

Answer 3

The brightest stars are planets. Venus outshines any star (except the sun). Saturn is also going strong right now. The brightest star in the night sky is Sirius. But since there are only 5 planets that can be seen with the naked eye then all other lights in the night sky are mostly stars.

Answer 4

Yes. They are sun or planets. Currently, in the evening sky, 2 of the "stars" you see in the sky are planets...Venus and Saturn. All the rest of them are suns. The sun in our solar system is a star as well.

Answer 5

The brightest "stars" you see planets in our solar system (brightest first):
Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Mercury.
Then there are several stars (Sirius, Canopus, Arcturus, Alpha Centauri A, Vega, Rigel, Procyon, Achernar, Betelgeuse, Hadar, and Capella ... not all are visible at all latitudes) that are brighter than the planet Saturn.

Most of the rest are stars (faraway suns) with occasional comets, supernovae and the like (I believe the Andromeda Galaxy and the Magellanic clouds are visible to the naked eye). Uranus (the next planet out after Saturn) is barely visible to the naked eye under perfect conditions. Neptune, Pluto and the other minor bodies (asteroids, kuiper belt, planetary moons, etc) require a telescope or binoculars.

Answer 6

Stars are celestial objects that are emitting heat, light, and other emissions as a result of nuclear fusion in their cores. Planets are large objects in orbits around stars. Our sun is a star.

Planets can be seen in our solar system because they reflect sunlight. Planets out as far as Saturn can be seen with the naked eye. Uranus, Neptune and the "planet" Pluto are too far and dim to be seen this way. One can detect if a celestial object is a star or planet several ways. Stars twinkle. Planets don't. Through a small telescope one can see the disk of a planet. Stars always appear as just points in the sky...even through the largest optical telescopes. Also, over several days planets will move relative to the "fixed" stars in the sky. The word planet literally means "wandering star".

The furthest stars we can see with the unaided eye compose the Andromeda galaxy...our galaxy Milky Way's nearest neighbor and is composed of over 100 billion stars. It appears as a very hazy patch almost the apparent size of our moon. One needs a dark clear sky far away from any light pollution.

Answer 7

It's easy to tell....the ones that followed the path of our sun, (the ones in the east in the morning and west in the evening) and are visible before or after the others are planets, the rest are stars like the sun.

Answer 8

If I had to answer such a question I would say let common sense be your guide. There are approximately 6,000 naked eye stars visible at any given time during a nights observation. they could not possibly all be planets, if only 5 planets could be seen by the unaided eye during the year.So that leaves the remaining visible objects as being either Suns, or spacial anomalies.

Answer 9

MOST of what you see in the night sky are suns in distant parts of our gallaxy. You can see the three closest planets to Earth as well; Mercury, Venus, and Mars.

Answer 10

All are suns ,only planets from our solar system you can see like stars.