because stars are balls of hot burning gases like our sun
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the sun!
There is only one sun and so the name given to it is the sun. It is a star, like billions and billions of other stars.
The sun was discovered to be a star simultaneous with the discovery that the stars were distant suns. Parallax established the distance to one of the nearer stars, and the distance was so vast it was realized that star had to be a sun like our own. This would have been in the late 1700s.
Regulus is about 77 light years distant from earth.There are no other stars between the sun and earth.The nearest star to earth is about 278,000 timesas far from us as the sun is.Regulus is about 17 times as far from us as that star is.
Distant Sun was created in 1993-09.
A Distant Star was created on 1994-11-23.
Barnards Star, approximately 6 light years distant.
-- Neptune is another planet in the solar system, just as the Earth is. -- The sun is the star closest to every object in the solar system, including Neptune. -- Neptune averages 30.1 AU distant from the sun ... about 2.8 billion miles. -- The Earth averages roughly 93 million miles distant from the sun.
The duration of Voices of a Distant Star is 1500.0 seconds.
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