• Question: are stars as big as the sun but only further away or are they tiny?

    Asked by milla123 to Stuart on 19 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Stuart Archer

      Stuart Archer answered on 19 Jun 2013:


      The stars you can see in the sky are generally of a similar size to our Sun, they’re just very far away – the nearest is 4 light years away (about 24 trillion miles!)

      However, stars do come in a wide variety of sizes – from small, hot stars like a white dwarf which is much smaller than the sun, up to red and blue supergiants which can be hundreds of times the size of the sun!

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