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How is the moon bigger than the sun?

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Anonymous

14y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

that is not true the sun is bigger than the moon

The moon is much, much, much smaller than the sun. It only looks bigger because the sun is much farther away than the moon. Many stars are much bigger than the sun, but they only look like points of light because they are so much more farther away.

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