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If you hold your thumb in front of your eye, it looks bigger than a full grown person who is far away. Similarly, from the earth the moon looks big because it is less than two light seconds from us (about 1.3), whereas the stars are all light years away--except for our local star.

Note, our sun appears about as big as the moon does from earth's surface, even though it is 8.4 light minutes from us. Using the ratio of 1.3 seconds to 8.4 minutes gives the approximate number of times larger than the moon the sun is--390 times. (The actual number is 400 times). That's just the diameter measurement. The total volume difference (size) is proportionate to the cube of that.

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