What does it mean when astronomers say the sun is an average sized star?

Answer 1

Well to put it into perspective:

There are around 1 billion stars in the Milky way galaxy. The Sun is an average sized star, with an average nu the to of are in you is very and that billion universe mber of planets, 8 or 9 depending on who you talk to or how you feel. Take 1 billion stars and around 8 planets around each star, that is 8 billion planets in our galaxy. 8 BILLION! Now please tell me there isn't life besides us within our galaxy....not to mention there are thousands if not closer to a million other galaxies in the universe and that is just a hypothesis, considering the universe is not endless! Earth is very very very very very very very X 10^100000000000000th power small.Well, we are a little dot on the edge of an "arm" of the galaxy that is quite large.

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ry very X 10^100000000000000th power small.Well, we are a little dot on the edge of an "arm" of the galaxy that is quite large.

I'd say we're like a grain of sand at a beach, compared to the galaxy.By "we", I'm assuming you mean Earth.

Smaller than you can comprehend, and it's not even close...we're smaller than a quark in comparison with the galaxy!!!i think you wouldn't even be able to see humeans compared to spaceEensie Weensie

But look how small the galaxy is in comparison to the universe, there are "Clusters" of galaxies in Virgo, so that makes us even smaller still...

And of course the universe is endless....

that and 3 dollrs will get you a latte at starbuxWell there are about a billion stars per galaxy. Planets are smaller than stars and currently about 6.5 billion of us humans populate this planet called earth. Compare the biggest thing you can to the smallest possible object - actually visualize it in your mind - and you are still nowhere close. Some other guy said that we are like a grain of sand in the sea. WRONG! More like one grain of sand compared to this world! the to of are in you is very and that billion universe

Answer 2

Yes, it is. It just looks brighter to us since we're much closer to it. However, many stars are just like our "sun," or even larger ! Which means other galaxies can exist and live off their suns/star.

Answer 3

The idea is that there are both larger and smaller stars. Note, however, that at least 90% of the stars are smaller and less bright than our Sun - the so-called red dwarfs make up the majority of stars.

One reason the Sun is described as "average" is that it started being described that way before we really knew how many small dim stars there actually are, and the Sun really was thought to be fairly average. It still is approximately average in the "mean" sense, though it's well above both the median and mode type averages, because while there aren't many stars larger than the Sun many of those that are larger are MUCH larger and brighter.

Answer 4

the reason is that our sun is not a large star and is not a small star but it is the usual size for stars

Answer 5

The sun has a medium temperature and is yellow in color. The sun is the closest star to us so it looks the brightest.