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Our Sun is a little larger than "average", but it is nowhere near "very large". I would have to say that our Sun is the perfect size for us.

When I was growing up, the astronomy books taught that our Sun was smaller than "average". But things have changed considerably as our telescopes have improved; we can now detect vast numbers of dwarf stars that were invisible to us 50 years ago.

So including all of the tiny little star-lets, the Sun is bigger than the new, lower average.

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