Why is the sun the biggest planet in your Solar System?

Answer 1

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Our own Sun is not at all bigger or brighter than other stars- in terms of overall stellar magnitude, it actually ranks as quite small. It just seems bigger and brighter to us because we are much closer to it than we are to any of the others.

Many stars in our galaxy are very much bigger than our own, but it doesn't seem like that to us because we are so much further away from them.

Answer 2

The sun is actually a small-medium sized star. It's just hundreds of light years closer to earth than any other star, so it's much closer and therefore looks much bigger.

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Answer 3

When objects are moved closer to the viewer, it can make them look larger than a bigger object which is positioned further away. The sun is a medium-sized star, and is absolutely miniscule compared to red giant stars. However, the sun's distance from earth is only a tiny fraction of the distance between the earth and the second nearest star, Proxima Centauri. The sun is just over 8 'light minutes' away from earth, but Proxima Centauri is 4.2 light years (just over 2.2 million light minutes). This is why the sun appears to be the largest star in the sky, to a viewer on earth.

Answer 4

The sun is not a planet; it is a star. It appears larger than the planets in our Solar System because it is a massive, glowing sphere of plasma that produces light and heat through nuclear fusion. The sun's size and gravitational pull dominate the Solar System, making it the central body around which all the planets orbit.

Answer 5

The sun is a star, not a planet. It is the largest object in the solar system because, when the solar system formed, 99.86% of the mass went into forming the sun.

Answer 6

Because our sun (main sequence star) is the closest star from the earth.