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Do Planets look like bright stars when they are viewed from Earth.?
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Where do you find bright and hot stars?
Anywhere - all stars are hot and bright in comparison to planets.
What are the bright lights in night sky that are NOT stars or planets?
The moving bright lights may be aircraft, satellites, or meteors. The bright points that are not stars or planets may also be galaxies, asteroids, comets, or the moons of planets.
Are Earth and Mars Stars or Planets?
planets.
Why do you see stars twinkling but planets do not?
the stars emitt its own light. But the planets do not have any own light. It absorbs the light from the stars like a sun. It just reflects the light. And also the stars are far away from the earth than the planets. So we can found the twinkling of stars but not the planets.
In which constellation will you find the bright star?
There are several bright stars. Planets move around the Ecliptic, covering 13 constellations or so. Note that planets look like stars, but are not currently considered stars. Also note that some of the planets look brighter (to us) than any real star. Other than planets, the brightest stars are the Sun (also changes through the constellations of the Ecliptic), Sirius (Canis Major), Canopus (Carina), and Toliman (Centaurus).
Where do you find bright and hot stars?
Anywhere - all stars are hot and bright in comparison to planets.
What are the bright lights in night sky that are NOT stars or planets?
The moving bright lights may be aircraft, satellites, or meteors. The bright points that are not stars or planets may also be galaxies, asteroids, comets, or the moons of planets.
Are the bright stars in the sky planets?
Stars are not plants they are really hot gases.
Are Earth and Mars Stars or Planets?
planets.
How the earth is affected by stars?
earth is effected by the stars because they are to bright
What makes the moon look bright in the sky?
The moon looks bright due to its size because of its closeness to Earth in comparison to very distant stars and planets combined with reflected sunlight.
What are the 5 planets visible from earth without a telescope?
Mercury, Venus, mars, Jupiter and Saturn can all be seen from earth. They look like bright stars with the naked eye.
Which of the brightest stars if the largest?
Arcturus (in Bootes) and Antares (in Scorpius) are GIANT, reddish stars and are extremely bright - in fact, they are almost as bright as the planets.
How come you cant see the 2 planets in front of the earth but the sun?
Mercury and Venus are the two planets nearer to the sun than the Earth is. They are both bright and easy to see. You just have to know when to look, and where in the sky to look. You also have to know what you are looking at when you see them, because they just look like bright stars.
What stars do you see from earth with naked eyes?
close by bright stars
Why do astronomers find it difficult to locate extrasolar planets with telescopos?
extra solar planets are not bright compared to the stars they orbit
What is the Name of star around which the earth orbits?
Those are called "planets". The ancient Greeks distinguished "fixed stars" - which is what we nowadays simply call "stars"; and the moving stars, which in Greek is called "planets".A planet certainly looks like a star (a very bright star, in some cases), but nowadays they are not usually called "stars".
