Did You Know Every Star You See In The Night Sky Is Bigger And Brighter Than Our Sun! Of The 5,000 Or So Stars Brighter Than Magnitude 6, Only A Handful Of Very Faint Stars Are Approximately The Same Size And Brightness Of Our Sun And The Fest Are All Bigger And Brighter. Of The 500 Or So That Are Brighter Than 4th Magnitude (Which Includes Essentially Every Star Visible To The Unaided Eye From A Urban Location), All Are Intrinsically Bigger And Brighter Than Our Sun, Many By A Large Percentage. Of The Brightest 50 Stars Visible To The The Human Eye From Earth, The Least Intrinsically Bright Is Alph Centauri, Which Is Still More Than 1.5 Times More Luminous Than Our Sun, And Cannot Be Easily Seen From Most Of The Northern Hemisphere.
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olivia
9/16/2019 12:45:52 pm
cool right?!!
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Karami
9/17/2019 10:31:10 pm
The stars ARE amazing! We have that in common with the ancients: we see some of the same stars!
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