If you were on another planet would a close star other than the sun look like a sun?

Answer 1

If I was on another planet, such as Neptune, then other stars would just look like normal stars on a normal earth night. The nearest star to the sun is 4.2 light years away and it is a red dwarf.....a very small cooler star. You may see thousands of stars at night but none are in close proximity to our solar system. Hope this helps.

Answer 2

If you mean another planet in our solar system then no, stars other than the Sun will look like points of light as they do from Earth.

If you mean looking from one of the 200 or so planets that we have found orbiting other stars at the star the planet orbits then in most cases this is difficult. Many of the planets found to date are believed to be large gaseous objects like Jupiter and orbit very close in to the star, going round in a few days.

Some planets, like the outer ones in the Gliese 581 system could be rocky and you might be able to stand on them. Even so they are still quite close to the star so it would appear to cover much more of the sky than our Sun does. Gliese 581 is a red dwarf so its colour should be much redder than our Sun, perhaps like what we see when there is a lot of pollution or bushfire smoke around.

Answer 3

What we call the sun is in fact a rather small star. Being on another planet in this system the sun will be the sun but look different.

If on a planet in another system our sun will just be a very small star and the star nearest the planer will be that ones sun.

I doubt if you understand but i did try.

Answer 4

depends on the type of star

Some are larger than our sun, some are smaller. They can vary widely in color too. Just from space, the star could be white, yellow, red, orange, blue, brown, etc. But depending on the planets atmosphere, a whole range of other color possibilities are also possible. Our sun from space looks white, but because of our atmosphere, sometimes it looks yellow, other times orange and so on.

What's even cooler is that some solar systems have twin or even triplet stars, meaning that they'd have 3 suns. So, chances are unlikely that other planets would have suns that look *exactly* like ours.

But there are so many stars out there, so who knows how many of them would have a sun similar to ours.

Answer 5

depends on the planet.... on Mars, the sun is still a pretty big thing in the sky.... get out around Neptune,tho, and our Sun is pretty dinky and not much more than a brighter star in their sky.....bright enuff to give them a 'day' side and a 'night' side, but not enuff to keep them from seeing the other stars, even on the day side of the planet....

but no other star is close enuff to be 'like the sun' to that planet... or to even look like it.... now, I've read that during a SuperNova of a relatively close star, it shown bright enuff to light the Earth's night, from many light years away... but that's a rarity....

Answer 6

If the sun was the same size and colour, then yes. If it was a red star or white star, then probably not.

Answer 7

If you were as close to the star as we are to our star(sun), of course it will be bigger(like our sun) than a star farther away.