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The stars look small compared to the sun because they are much farther away.

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


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Why does the sun appear bigger than the stars?

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Is a star as big as a planet?

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Why does the sun look so big compared to the other stars to us on earth?

How dumb are you? I'll surprise you: the sun is actually smaller than most of the stars you see im the sky. Then why is it bigger? BECAUSE ITS CLOSER.


Why does the sun appear much larger than other stars?

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Why do the stars at night look so small even though they are much larger than earth?

They are many orders of magnitude further away from us than the sun is compared to the number of times larger than the sun is. For example a star that is 100 times the diameter of the sun but 1 million times further away would look about 0.0001 times as large as the sun to us.