Without knowing location, direction or date it could be anything.
A quick guess - Vega, directly east from the UK
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Or, depending on your location and time zone, the planet Venus, low in the west.
No. Sigma Octans is a star close to the south pole of the sky, but it is not particularly bright.
The bright star lit up the night sky.
The bright ones
There is no particularly bright star near the south pole of the sky. A nearby star is Sigma Octans, but it is not as bright a star as Polaris (the North Star).
yes it is but you could also say: South Africa shined like a bright star in the sky.
When observing a star, you will see a bright point of light in the night sky.
Venus is the brightest star. It is also the hottest planet it reflects a lot of light from the sun and we can see it as a bright dot in the sky.
It always appears due north in the sky and is a reasonably bright star
Since the sun (a star) is so bright, no other star can shine during the daytime.
The sign in the sky was a star. It was a bright star in the East that led the Wise Men to where Jesus was born.
The Sun is the star that is never seen in the night sky. It is too bright to be visible against the backdrop of the stars at night.
Distance from Earth.