Question

Why do stars look very small although these are huge heavenly bodies

Answer 1

The reason behind that is although stars are huge heavenly bodies but their distance from the surface of earth is thousand of light years due to which they appear to be very small.


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Answer 2

Despite their enormous sizes, stars appear to be just tiny dots of light in the sky because of how far away they are. And we’re talking about mind-blowing distances! If an astronomical unit was reduced to a foot, the sun would be just a foot away, Neptune would be ten yards, Pluto would be just 40 feet, and Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to the solar system, would be over 50 miles away! Sirius would be over 100 miles distant (roughly 104 miles), Procyon, an F-type sub-giant Star that’s running outta hydrogen in its core, would be approximately 136.5 miles out and Vega, a white main sequence type A star, would be over 300 miles away. On this scale, Betelgeuse, a red supergiant on the top left corner of Orion, would be almost 7,700 miles out! That’s just over 200 miles shy of the circumference of the earth at the equator! On this scale where an astronomical unit is shrunk down to a foot, though it’d take only like ten seconds to walk out to Neptune, it’d take over 16 hours to walk to or almost an hour to drive to Proxima Centauri. Sirius would be a roughly 33 hour walk or 1 hr and 45 minute drive away, and Vega would be about a five hour drive away! To get to a star 99 light years away would be about a two hour flight or seven hour drive away. As you can see, it wouldn’t be very practical to try and walk to even the nearest star to our solar system, Proxima Centauri (unless you’re a truly dedicated walker willing to walk fifty miles).