The brightness of a star is called visual magnitude. The lower the visual magnitude is the brighter the star is.
If the bright star is located farther away from Earth than the less bright star, it will appear dimmer due to the inverse square law of light intensity. The amount of light reaching Earth decreases with distance, so a closer, less bright star can appear brighter than a further, brighter star.
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The apparent magnitude of Deneb is +1.25, a fairly bright bright star from Earth.
The word you are looking for is "apparent magnitude," which is a measure of how bright a star appears to an observer on Earth. It is based on the star's intrinsic brightness and its distance from Earth.
The 3 factors that affect a star's brightness as viewed from earth, are: The star's age, distance from earth, and actual magnitude (scale a star's brightness is measured in).
A shooting star that has not landed on Earth is called a meteor. It is the bright streak of light caused by a meteoroid entering the Earth's atmosphere and burning up due to friction.
Absolute magnitude is how bright a star is. Apparent magnitude is how bright it looks to us (on Earth).
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Mercury is about one fifth as bright as the faintest star visible to the naked eye from Earth.
Canopus is a very bright star. It is in the southern constellation of Carina.
This is called "Apparent Magnitude".
Not necessarily. Two stars can have the same brightness but be at different distances from Earth. The distance of a star affects how bright it appears to us, so a closer dim star may appear as bright as a farther bright star.