2007-05-09 19:18:22 · 5 answers · asked by Astronomy Freak 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
A star will be bigger than a planet.... that's part of what makes it a star. A big ball of gaseous plasma ...heated to fusion temperatures by gravity.
For example, the Sun is 860,000 miles across... if a dwarf star was only half that size it would still be 50 times larger than the Earth :)
2007-05-09 19:52:05 · answer #1 · answered by John T 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The star. The planet is only 5 solar masses. A star could never be that small.
2007-05-09 19:47:13 · answer #2 · answered by Gene 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The star is more massive and larger than the planet. If the opposite were true the star would be in orbit around the planet.
2007-05-09 19:54:43 · answer #3 · answered by Chug-a-Lug 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the star is bigger, the mass of that star is measured in solar masses while the planet about which you are thinking is measured in earth masses. then of course the star is bigger and there is no any atleast specimen example that the planet is bigger than star
2007-05-09 20:58:14 · answer #4 · answered by Vipul C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
duh! if the planet were larger than the star, it would be alight itself, therefore it would be a star too. the planet is 5 earth masses, not solar masses. the star is considerably smaller than our own (the sun).
2007-05-09 19:49:16 · answer #5 · answered by gufodotto 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋