The brightest star in the sky, is our Sun. It is a star.
After the Sun, Sirius is the next brightest star, or the brightest in the night sky.
Arcturus ...It's a star 100,000,000,000 times bigger than our own Sun...the bigest star known is VY canis majoris...I estimate that star to be 100 thousand duotrigintillion times bigger than our sun or even more.........
The lower number means more brightness. Note that these are apparent magnitudes. Sirius and Alpha Centauri A are bright because they're close to us. Canopus, on the other hand, is much brighter, but also much further away (Sirius is about 8 light years away; Canopus is more than 300 light years away).
# Sirius # Canopus # Rigil Kentaurus # Arcturus # Vega
Its called Sirius and also called Dog star.
The brightest star in the sky is the sun.
Sirius is the brightest star in the sky.
Venus
The brightest OBJECTS in the sky, after the Sun, are the Moon, followed by planets Venus, Jupiter, and Mars (on rare occasions, Mars is brighter then Jupiter), followed by the star Sirius.The brightest stars proper are Sirius, followed by Canopus, Toliman, Arcturus, Vega...
Most of the times, the brightest part of the galaxy is at the ceentre due the higher density of stars .Also if the galaxy is a spiral then the brightest part of the galaxy are the spiral arms because they are the star formation areas in the galaxy
The surface temperature of Eta Piscium, the constellation Pisces' brightest star, is about 4930 Kelvin, or just a bit under 3000 degrees Fahrenheit.
The term magnitude is used to define the apparent brightness of an object from Earth. The scale has its origins in the Hellenistic practice of dividing stars, visible to the naked eye into six magnitudes.The brightest stars were said to be of first magnitudewhile the faintest were of sixth magnitude by visual perception.Each magnitude was considered to be twice the brightness of the following grade (a logarithmic scale).Nowadays there are more than six magnitudes and the use of negative values were introduced. So our Sun have an apparent magnitude of -26.73 whilst Uranus is 5.5See related for for information
About 8.6 light-years or 8.6 yrs x 365 days/1 yr=3139 days * 24 hr/1day=75,336 hrs *60 secs/1hr=4520160 secs * c (speed of light 186,000 miles/sec)=84,749,760,000,000 miles from Earth.......(or how much our country with be in debt by 2020 LOL )
Sirius is the brightest star in the night sky, but the brightest overall is the sun.
Sirius also known as the dog star is the brightest star in the sky.
No. The brightest star in the night sky is Sirius.
The brightest star in the sky at any time is the sun.The brightest star in the night sky is Sirius, in the constellation Canis Major.
Sirius is the brightest star in the night sky.
Rigel is the brightest star in Orion and the sixth brightest star in the sky, with an apparent magnitude of 0.18.
The brightest star as seen from Earth is the sun. The brightest star in the night sky is Sirius.
The main star of Virgo is Spica, is the brightest star in the constellation Virgo, and the 15th brightest star in the nighttime sky. It is 260 light years distant from Earth. The main star of Virgo is Spica, is the brightest star in the constellation Virgo, and the 15th brightest star in the nighttime sky. It is 260 light years distant from Earth. The main star of Virgo is Spica, is the brightest star in the constellation Virgo, and the 15th brightest star in the nighttime sky. It is 260 light years distant from Earth. The main star of Virgo is Spica, is the brightest star in the constellation Virgo, and the 15th brightest star in the nighttime sky. It is 260 light years distant from Earth.
Sirius
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SunAnswer:The brightest star can be identified either on an apparent brightness (how bright it seems to an observer on Earth) or absolute luminosity. Obviously the Sun is the brightest star in the sky at any time. If only the night sky is considered, it is Sirius. The brightest star discovered, based on its energy output, is Cygnus OB2-12 (a very bright blue hypergiant). It is more than 6 million times brighter than the Sun.