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Yes, in "absolute magnitude", Mizar is much brighter than the Sun.
The sun only appears brighter than other stars because it is much closer to us.
The sun appears brighter than Rigel does because it is much closer to us by a factor of about 50 million.
Our Sun appears brighter than Alpha Centauri B because of its proximity to our point of view. We are much closer to our Sun then any other star which means that our Sun will be much brighter then everything else in the sky.
Simple, even though the sun is dimmer then many stars, it is over a thousand times closer to the earth and thus is larger to us and brighter
There are many stars that are brighter than the sun. Deneb shines the brightest in the constellation Cygnus and is much farther from Earth than most of the other stars you see. Deneb is about 100,000 times brighter than the Sun. HR 5171, has a diameter 1,300 times the sun and is a million times brighter than the sun. R136a1 weighs up to 300 times the mass of the Sun and is close to 10 million times brighter than the sun.
About 85,000 times as bright!
it isn't the sun is 450000 times brighter than the moon! no..
Brighter Than the Sun was created on 2011-05-23.
The sun appears bigger and brighter than other stars because it is much closer to us than any other stars.
300,000,000,000,000 times brighter than the sun
In absolute terms, some are brighter than our Sun - in some rare cases, millions of times brighter - while others are much less bright than our Sun.