Emma Monkey asked:
If you can see stars that are billions of light years away, then I figure they must be huge up close, but on Sc-Fi programmes like Star Trek they still look the same size as they do from Earth. So can you please tell me how big are they really?
If you can see stars that are billions of light years away, then I figure they must be huge up close, but on Sc-Fi programmes like Star Trek they still look the same size as they do from Earth. So can you please tell me how big are they really?
every star is about as big as the sun…as a matter of fact, our sun is a star…its just MUCH closer!
they are mostly bigger than earth…..
like an coco compared to a melon
actually, stars are all different sizes, and with the exception of stars known as white dwarves all stars are bigger than earth. The sun is much much much bigger than us too by the way.
first off, star treks’ a show. second off, teh stars are still billions of lightyears away from the enterprise as it cruses through space.
the sun is a average sized star. think of it this way
when you look at the sun, and can see its outline, as in through some clouds or something. the sphere of the sun looks to be the same size as the moon. the sun is farther away fromt he eathr than the many of the other planets that we can see, and these other planets look like stars themslves and are relitavly close in size to the earth. so the sun must be massivly huge in comparison to the earth. and it is an average sized star.
sun is many times larger than earth.
Stars are of three categories: smaller than sun, equal to it, larget than it.
Some stars may be billion times larger than mother earth
compare a pea with a soccer ball(sun and earh)
Bigger than our sun which is apparently in the small side for a star.
The sun’s diameter is about 100 times that of earth. As other answers have noted, the sun is a mid-sized star. See the ref. for examples of different star sizes.
some of the stars even are bigger than our sun so its kinda difficult to imagine
not all stars have the same weight. one of them are biggest than the earth but some of them are like half of earth
White dwarfs, neutron stars and brown stars all are smaller then the earth.
The smallest stars can be the black holes, only a few miles wide.
Supergiants places where the sun is, reach to Mars’ orbit.
Then there are all sizes between these extremes.
No matter where you are in outer space, even on the Enterprise, there will be stars that are so far away, they are only pinpoints of light.
If the earth were the size of a pea, the sun would be roughly the size of a basketball. There are stars out there that, on this scale, would be the size of a large beachball or a medicine ball. While there are a few types of stars that are smaller in diameter than Earth, it should be noted that the Mass (or weight) of these stars is still millions of times that of the Earth. So they are still bigger. For example: On Earth, a bottle cap full of Neutron Star Material (Neutronium) would weigh more than an Aircraft Carrier.