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The sun is larger than some stars but smaller than others. The smallest stars, not counting collapsed remnants, are about a tenth the diameter of the sun. The largest are more than 1,000 times the sun's diameter.
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Is the sun bigger or smaller than other stars?
Our sun is about average compared to other stars. Some are much smaller (white dwarfs) and others are much larger.
How is the sun different from other stars relative to earth?
The Sun is bigger than some stars and smaller than others. It is brighter than some stars and dimmer than others. Relative to the Earth it is much closer than all other stars.
Are red stars bigger than blue stars?
Red stars can be smaller or larger than blue stars as there are two types of red star. Red dwarfs are much smaller than blue stars while red giants are much larger than blue stars.
Why are stars in the night sky so much smaller than our star?
They are not. The stars at night only appear smaller than the sun because they are much farther away.
Is our sun smaller than other stars?
The sun larger than most other stars, but there are stars larger than the sun as well, some much larger. For example, Antares is a red supergiant 800 times the sun's diameter.
Why do other stars appear smaller than your stars?
Because they are farther away
Why is the sun so much bigger than other stars?
It is not. The other stars seem smaller because they are farther away.
Why are stars in the night sky so much smaller than your star?
The sun is much closer than the the stars we see at night
What kinds of stars are smaller than the sun?
There are other "main sequence" stars smaller than the Sun, but the classes of much smaller stars are:white dwarf stars (once Sun-like but no longer support fusion)red dwarfs and orange dwarfs (small dim stars that have very long lives)"brown dwarfs" (oversized Jovian gas giants with little or no fusion)neutron stars (smaller than the Earth but immensely dense, remnants of massive stars that went supernova)
How much bigger is the sun than other stars and why is it more important?
The sun is bigger than some stars but smaller than others. It is more important to us than other stars because it is the only one close enough to provides us with a substantial amount of energy.
How many times larger is the sun than a star?
The sun is a star. It is larger than some stars but smaller than others. It only appears larger than other stars because it is much closer to us.
Why don't you see other stars bigger than sun?
Many of the stars you can see are actually larger than our sun. The reason they appears smaller is because the are much further away from us.
