A star is a sun but its further away from our planet. The sun is our closest star!! Right or Wrong??
2007-08-06 23:52:37 · 27 answers · asked by Yorkshire Gurlie ♥ 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
You are quite correct. The sun is a star converting hydrogen to helium. All stars are suns, just a lot further away. If you travelled to the edge of the solar system our sun would look just like any other star.
2007-08-06 23:58:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Sun is most definately a Star
2007-08-08 08:23:46 · answer #2 · answered by Bludnut 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO. A sun is a star, but not all stars are suns. A star a can be a planet, a moon, gases, dust, just about any that far enough away to look like a star. When you look at the night sky, you can see most of the planets in our solar system, but they look just like stars.
2007-08-07 00:02:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Stars are infact distant suns of other planets. So our sun is just like the other stars. Although to us the sun isnt a star to us because it is soo close.
2007-08-07 06:24:11 · answer #4 · answered by CARL W 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well, wrong, because calling any star appart from the one in our solar system a sun would be incorrect. Sun is that name of that perticular star, not another word for a star. There is one sun, and uncountable stars. the Sun is a star (our closest star), but any other star is not a sun.
2007-08-07 06:12:38 · answer #5 · answered by Kit Fang 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
right! correct! The Sun (Latin: Sol) is the star at the center of the Solar System. The Earth and other matter (including other planets, asteroids, meteoroids, comets and dust) orbit the Sun, which by itself accounts for about 99.8% of the solar system's mass. Energy from the Sun—in the form of sunlight—supports almost all life on Earth via photosynthesis, and drives the Earth's climate and weather.
2007-08-06 23:59:18 · answer #6 · answered by reuven27 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tell that brother of yours that our sun is a star, it is called the sun because is is one of the few we have given names to, same as not all the planets in the galaxy have name yet.
2007-08-06 23:57:40 · answer #7 · answered by Firefox 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, kind of. The sun is a star. The Sun is what we call our star. Other stars are the same as our sun (there are sum differences, by just varying types).
2007-08-06 23:56:37 · answer #8 · answered by Marky 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The sun is a star, and it is of course the star closest to us, which is why it appears so bright compared to other stars. The next nearest star (Proxima Centauri) is more than 250,000 times further away.
2007-08-07 00:01:41 · answer #9 · answered by Graham I 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A star is not a sun, but the sun is a star.
2007-08-07 03:59:13 · answer #10 · answered by ashveen13 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋