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Stars are everywhere in our Universe.

The closest is our Sun at about 8.3 light minutes away.
The next closest, is Proxima Centauri at 4.2 light years.
The furthest star in our Galaxy is about 75,000 light years away.

The furthest galaxy so far found is IOK-1 at 12.9 billion light years.

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Is the sun one of the largest stars in the galaxy?

No. While the sun is larger than the average star it is nothing extraordinary. Many stars are far larger than the sun.


What would the nigh tsky look like if all-stars had same absolute magnitude as the sun?

If all stars had the same absolute magnitude as our Sun, we wouldn't see many bright stars. Many of the stars that seem brightest to use are far, far away, but thousands of times brighter than our Sun. Those are relatively short-lived stars, many of them will live only a few million years. (Yes, this is short for a star; many stars, like our Sun, have life spans of billions of years.)


How far is the blue star from the sun?

The distance between the Sun and a blue star can vary greatly as there are many different types of blue stars in the universe. Blue stars can range in distance from a few light-years to thousands of light-years away from the Sun.


Where to the stars go in the daytime?

They are still there, but the brightness of the sun is far brighter and overwhelms the light from the stars. It is like when you see the moon during the day, it looks dimmer because the sky around it is brighter. This is the same effect on stars except the stars are far less bright than the moon and they essentially get lost in the brightness.


Is the sun a small star or a medium star?

The Sun isn't especially large, but is still a little larger than average. But the "average" for stars is skewed a bit by the fact that there are so many small stars. We talk about Betelgeuse and Rigel and Sirius, the biggest and brightest stars, but there are far more dwarf stars than giants.

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The stars are upwards of 4.2 light-years from the Sun.


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Is the sun the biggest object in space?

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Why do stars like Alpha Cent uri appear so dim?

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Are all-stars as big as earths sun?

Actually, the Sun is really small compared to most stars. The stars just look small because they're far away.


Why stars are not seen in daylight?

Because.. the light from the Sun is far too bright to allow stars to be seen.


Is the sun bigger than all the other stars?

No. The sun is not the biggest star in the our galaxy. Some stars that we see at night that are located far far away from other stars. One of the largest known stars, NML Cygni, is 1,650 times bigger than the sun (by radius). Our sun is tiny, compared to the bigger stars. the largest star is a billion times the sun, and by the way, nml cygni is not one of the largest known stars, it IS the largest known star


What star is larger than the sun?

noone knows there are many large stars very far away we dont have the technoligy to go that far. Many of the bright stars we can see are larger than the Sun.


Do stars also reflect the sun?

No, stars do not reflect the sun like the moon does. Stars are very similar to the sun and give off their own light. (They look small because they are far away, but they are actually very big).


Why cannot we see stars during day time?

Because the sun is far to bright in relation to the light from the stars.


Do stars provide heat?

Yes, but apart from the Sun, the stars are too far away for their heat to affect Earth.