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Is a dwarf star bigger than your sun?

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Depends what type of dwarf star. - Our Sun is a yellow dwarf.

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Its is true that Dwarf star are bigger than our sun?

No


What is the star that is bigger than the sun called?

Many stars are bigger than the sun. In fact the sun is called a yellow dwarf, or a G dwarf star meaning it is relatively small (i.e. a dwarf) compared to the "average star" in our galaxy.


Is the sun larger than a white dwarf?

YES. A typical white dwarf star is only a bit bigger than the Earth.


How can a star that has more mass than the sun be smaller than your sun?

The obvious reason is that the specific star has bigger density compared with the Sun. For example, that star could be a "white dwarf star". A white dwarf mostly contains "electron degenerate matter", which is very dense. A white dwarf is a small dense star.


Is a brown dwarf bigger than the sun?

No Brown Dwarfs are too small to be considerred a star.


How much bigger is the sun than the smallest star?

The mass of a red dwarf can go down to about 0.075 times the mass of the Sun. Anything smaller than that would be a brown dwarf, which is no longer considered a star.


What is the diameter in km of the dwarf star?

There are many types of Dwarf stars - all with different diameters. Our Sun is a dwarf star! A typical neutron star has a diameter of about 24km our Sun has a diameter of 1.392×106 km So our Sun is about 58,000 times bigger than a neutron star.


Is sun bigger than star or star bigger than sun?

The sun is a star, some stars are larger and other are smaller.


Is the sun bigger than the star?

The sun is a star!


You know the white dwarf stars Sirius B has a mass comparable to the Sun because of?

Because a white dwarf star is the core leftover from a bigger star and the core is the densest part of the star so although the star is smaller than the sun it has a similar mass as it is more dense


Which planet was recently downgraded and re-classified as a star?

Pluto was redesignated as a dwarf planet. All the stars we can see are much bigger than the planets and many of them are bigger than the Sun.


How is a red dwarf different from your sun?

A red dwarf star is smaller, dimmer, and cooler than our sun.