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You CAN see the planets - or five of them - from Earth.
Right now, Venus is clearly visible each evening. It's the brightest thing in the sky after the Sun has set.
The planet Saturn rises about 9 PM in this season, and is visible until just before Dawn.
Mars, Mercury and Jupiter are too near to the Sun to be visible, but after mid-April should be easily seen in the pre-dawn sky.
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∙ 11y agoScientists use radio telescopes instead of optical telescope when studying the Milky Way because if they used an optical telescope, then many of the gas clouds, star groups, black holes, planets, etc. would get in the way.
Radio telescope are much easier when studying our galaxy because it uses signals and not vision. For example, how does your boombox get radio even though there are hundred of object are in the way of the signal? well... radio waves go through objects so therefore, studying the universe is the same.
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∙ 11y agoThe reason you can't see it from earth is beacuse we are a part of it so it is merely impossible and the reason you cant see the milky way or be posotive on what it looks like is because they haven't made space crafts that can travel that far and they haven't even made on that has travelled to the nearest star.
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∙ 6y agoWe can! It's usually visible from mid-May to early June in the South South-East, fairly low in the sky just above right of the constellation Scorpius, and to the right and slightly higher up than Saturn.
Be careful not to get it mixed up with the star Antares though, which is a red supergiant and can have some resemblance in colour.
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∙ 14y agoBecause it is tiny in comparison to Alpha Centauri A & B [See related link]
You can with a telescope though.
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∙ 13y agoas everyone know that they are very far away and this is cause due to clouds in the sky.
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Actually you can. In fact, you can see the Milky Way with the naked eye.
However, since we are INSIDE it, it's hard to get a feel of its actual shape.
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∙ 12y agotheir to far to see
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Why might a Proxima Centauri look dimmer than a Betelgeuse?
Proxima Centauri has an insignificant luminosity to Betelgeuse. Although it is the closest known star(4.2 light-years) to our Sun, it is virtually impossible to see because it is so dim. Betelgeuse, on the other hand, is a lot farther (640 light-years). Yet, it is one of the brightest stars in our night sky. This is because Betelgeuse has an extremely high luminosity.
Why do all stars except our Sun appear only as tiny dots in the sky?
They are unimaginably far away. The sun is "only" about 93 million miles from Earth. The next nearest star, Proxima Centuari is about 265,000 times farther away than the sun is. To scale it down, if the sun were an inch from your face, Proxima Centauri would be more than 4 miles away. Many of the stars you see at night are dozens to hundreds of times farther away than Proxima Centauri.
Why is the sun much brighter than any other star?
The brightest star in the sky is the sun, as it is by far the closest. The next closest is a red dwarf star called Proxima Centauri, much further away. The sun is around 8 minutes away at the speed of light, while Proxima Centauri is around 4.2 years away at the speed of light (light years).
What are the top twenty birightest stars in the sky?
20?? man thats tough 1. sun 2. north star 3. 7 forming great bear( ursa major) 4. 7 stars in ursa minor ( north star is one of them) 5. proxima centauri/alpha centauri cinstellation
What is the difference between Sirius and Proxima Centauri?
Proxima Centauri is a red dwarf star and the nearest star to us other than the sun. It is about 4.2 light years away and is much dimmer than the sun, too dim to be seen with the naked eye. It is unclear whether it is part of the Alpha Centauri system. Sirius is a binary star system consisting of a white dwarf stellar remnant and a white main sequence star about 25 times brighter than the sun. Sirius is one of our closest stellar neighbors at about 8.6 light years away. It is the brightest star in the night sky.
When you look up at the sky at Proxima Centauri how long will it be before someone there saw it?
When you look up at the sky at Proxima Centauri, you see it as it was 4.2 years ago. It will be another 4.2 years from now before somebody at Proxima Centauri sees you looking down at him. He will be troubled, and will wonder why you are looking down at him.
When was proxima centauri discovered?
There isn't much to "discover" here - Alpha Centauri is the third-brightest star in the sky. People must already have seen him tens of thousands of years ago.
When we look up at the sky at proxima centauri how old is that light?
That light is 4.2 years old.
Why might a Proxima Centauri look dimmer than a Betelgeuse?
Proxima Centauri has an insignificant luminosity to Betelgeuse. Although it is the closest known star(4.2 light-years) to our Sun, it is virtually impossible to see because it is so dim. Betelgeuse, on the other hand, is a lot farther (640 light-years). Yet, it is one of the brightest stars in our night sky. This is because Betelgeuse has an extremely high luminosity.
What is the closest star like our sun type to earth?
The closest star would be Alpha Centauri A (Not to be confused with Proximus Centauri) which has a stellar class [See Link] of G2V which is the same as our Sun. It's distance is about 4.3 light years away.
Why do all stars except our Sun appear only as tiny dots in the sky?
They are unimaginably far away. The sun is "only" about 93 million miles from Earth. The next nearest star, Proxima Centuari is about 265,000 times farther away than the sun is. To scale it down, if the sun were an inch from your face, Proxima Centauri would be more than 4 miles away. Many of the stars you see at night are dozens to hundreds of times farther away than Proxima Centauri.
What is the name of the nearest star to the earth?
The center of our solar system is the Sun. The Sun is a star.The nearest star to the Sun is Proxima Centauri, a red dwarf about 4.24 light-years from the Sun.
Why does the sun appear bigger than the stars you see in the sky at night?
Simply because it's a lot closer to us! The next-nearest star to us, Proxima Centauri, is about 271,000 times further away than the Sun. To put that in perspective, it takes light between 8 and 9 minutes to reach us from the Sun, and over 4.3 YEARS to reach us from Proxima Centauri! And most stars are much, much further away than that...
What is the name of the star nearest to earth?
The star nearest to the Earth is Sun, but except Sun, The closest star system that we know of is Alpha Centauri, located about 4.37 light years away (41.5 trillion km). The system easy to see with the unaided eye - if you live in the Southern hemisphere. In fact, Alpha Centauri is the 4th brightest star in the star in the sky. Alpha Centauri is actually made up of three stars orbiting one another. They're too bright to be seen as separate stars without a telescope. But with a telescope, it's possible to split the star into two. These are Alpha Centuari A and B. Neither of them is very closer to the Earth. The Alpha Centauri system has a third, much dimmer star called Proxima Centauri. While Alpha Centauri A and B are 4.37 light-years away, The red dwarf Proxima Centauri is located a mere 4.22 light-years away. Alpha Centauri orbit one another, getting as close as 11.2 astronomical units (the distance from the Sun to Saturn), while Proxima Centauri is about 13,000 astronomical units away. Most astronomers think that Proxima Centauri orbits the binary pair, but there are some who think it's just passing by, and not actually part of the system.
Why is the sun much brighter than any other star?
The brightest star in the sky is the sun, as it is by far the closest. The next closest is a red dwarf star called Proxima Centauri, much further away. The sun is around 8 minutes away at the speed of light, while Proxima Centauri is around 4.2 years away at the speed of light (light years).
The distance between your solar system and the closet one?
The nearest star to the Sun is currently Proxima Centauri. It is a distance of about 4.22 light years from the Sun.It is very likely that Proxima Centauri is gravitationally associated with the two stars of Alpha Centauri system since the separation is only 0.21 ly about 15,000 AU but no evidence of an elliptical orbit associated with a binary star has not been found. If this is correct then eventually Alpha Centauri A & B will become the nearest stars to Earth at a distance of 4.36 ly.
Are the stars that appear the brightest are also the closest?
No. The sun is very close to us so it seems very bright. There are a lot of stars that are much brighter than it, but are very far away. It is the same with the other stars. There are some very bright ones that are very far away and some dimmer ones that are closer to us. After the sun, the next brightest star is Proxima Centauri. The brightest star in the night sky that we see is Sirius, which is close, but much further away than Proxima Centauri.
