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Why do planets move across the night sky but stars don't?
The planets are closer. (They all move - and differently.)
Are there more stars than planets?
Yes. 200 billions stars and 8 planets in our solar system.
Are there more Stars or Planets?
there are more planets than stars because to every star there could have several planets
How many stars with planets?
There are more than 300 known stars with known planets, and the list gets longer all the time.
In what way do planets look different from stars?
Firstly, planets are way way smaller than the stars! That's because you can see stars in the night but never planets. Also stars produce nuclear energy in their core so they give thermal ( heat ) energy. Also stars have more gravity than planets.
Why is the wobbly motion of a star an indication that the star once had more than one planet orbiting it?
Because planets (at least the large ones) exert a noticeable tug on their stars that can be detected and measured. Because stars are so far way, the motions we see now happened a long time ago and in that time, the planets and the stars relationship could have changed.
Why do planets appear brighter than stars?
Planets appear brighter than stars because they reflect more sunlight and have larger apparent sizes in the night sky compared to distant stars. Stars emit light due to nuclear fusion in their cores, while planets reflect light from the Sun, making them appear brighter to us on Earth.
Why don't the stars appear to move with respect to one another?
They are so far away - the closest stars are tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands, times farther than the planets - that any movement would take years to be noticeable.
Do planets obit the sun?
Eight planets orbit our sun. More than a thousand planets far beyond our solar system are known to orbit other stars.
What terrestrial planets are there?
The terrestrial planets in our solar system are Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. There are many more terrestrial planets orbiting stars other than the sun.
Which is bigger the planet or the star?
On the whole stars are much larger than planets, but there are some dwarf stars that are smaller than giant planets.
If the stars are like the sun then why don't the others planets stay warm?
The other planets in our are warmed by the sun, some more than others depending on their distance to the sun. The other stars are too far away to warm the planets.
