If you are an amateur then forget getting a telescope unless you are willing to get a very good one costing several hundreds of pounds or dollars. Cheap 'toy' telescopes are next to useless, as they claim to have great magnification, but the image is usually very poor and grainy and impossible to see properly because the optics and light gathering power are usually pretty poor. Also, the mounting of toy telescopes are usually flimsy and result in a great deal of shake. Often a good mount is as espensive as the telescope itself. A good pair of binoculars with a tripod to reduce shake should be perfectly adequate for seeing the craters on the moon, Jupiter and its moons, Venus, and large star clusters and nebulae like the Pleiades. The rings of Saturn may be too small for a small pair of binoculars, and so in this case a decent telescope is better.
Eight planets orbit our sun. More than a thousand planets far beyond our solar system are known to orbit other stars.
Earth and Mars are planets, not stars. Stars are massive celestial bodies that generate light and heat through nuclear reactions in their cores, while planets are smaller bodies that orbit stars. Earth and Mars are both planets in our solar system that orbit the Sun.
No, all stars aren't suns. A sun is a star that is at the center of a solar system. Planets rotate around the sun. Planets don't rotate around a normal star. A star can be found anywhere around the universe. That's not the case with planets. Planets have to be in a solar system and a sun has to be in the center. If this is the case with a star, then that star can be called a sun.
The planets reflect sunlight, but the stars are too far away to have any significant effect.
No, the sun and moon are not planets. The sun is a star that emits light and heat, while the moon is Earth's natural satellite. Planets are celestial bodies that orbit stars, like Earth does with the sun.
Planets orbit the sun. Stars do not.
The sun.
On the contrary! A star has planets, which circulate it. And planets have moons. Stars do not circle planets.
How far is the earth to the sun?
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Planets reflect light from the sun. Stars emit their own light.
Orbiting stars. We know of eight planets orbiting our Sun, and we know of over 300 planets orbiting other stars.
The reason you can see planets and stars at night is that their light is faint and the brightness of the sun obscures them during the day. At night, when the sun is not visible, the fainter light from the planets and stars can more readily be seen.
The other planets in our are warmed by the sun, some more than others depending on their distance to the sun. The other stars are too far away to warm the planets.
An astronomer studies the sun, moon, stars, planets, and other celestial bodies in outer space. They use telescopes and other instruments to observe and analyze these objects, as well as conduct research to understand their properties and behavior.
No. The stars make their own light, but the planets only relect light from the sun.
That doesn't make sense. There are stars, and there are planets. If you mean "planets around stars, other than the Sun", those are usually called "extrasolar planets" or "exoplanets".