Is our sun a star? \n\nConfused you see.
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yes,sun is a burning star. at present sun is in red giant stage .this will exhaust after  few billion centuries
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You can see stars in space\n\nWhat has probably caused some of the confusion is that in a  photo or video image of space, there are barely any stars unless the star is the main focal point.\n\nStars are much dimmer when compared to the moon, or other objects and so to get the right exposure to show stars in a picture is very difficult.\n\nFortunately your eyes are much better than cameras and so if your ever in space you will be able to see the beauty of stars
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Whoa whoa whoa. . . .Wait a minute!!!!!\n\nYou're saying the Sun DOESN'T go to kneel into a well every night in the west??\n\nPerhaps science just hasn't found the right well!  Sheesh!!!\n\nWe all know the books were written for people other than us here and now.  If that's your point, you made it well.  If you're really not sure who to believe, I feel for ya.
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Hitch your wagon to a star, i'e answered this about 5 times 2day, so thanks for the points. pleaz choose me for the best answer. :)
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Yes, almot every star we see is a star from this galaxy. Their are also other galaxies, but we see those only as other points of light, since they are so far away, and five planets that usually glow brighter than the rest of the lights. Also tthe brighter part of the galaxy is just a denser cluster of stars, and we do see it, it's the milky white band we see at night from horizon to horizon, it's called the Milky Way.
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the sun is a star because it is. There are other stars in the universe that have planets revolving around them. All the stars you see in the sky are like the Sun once you get close enough. From those stars, our Sun just looks like another star in the sky.
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LOL...\n\nIt's not a quote but a poem...anyway Sagittarius Red maybe?\n\nBTW, who the he ll is S.R.  Anyone famous?
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Stars don't move our sun is a big star it is our planet that orbits our star so that is why it seems like the stars move my lov.
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no, but i can tell you what we think it is:\n\nit is a star whose gravity is too great for the nuclear fusion in its core to negate.  it collapses in on itself and goes supernova.  then it is a neutron star.  if the gravity is still too great, it collapses some more and becomes a black hole.  its gravity is so strong that light itself cannot escape it (thus it is 'black').  they are suspected to be at the center of many galaxies, especially quasars and other active galaxies.  one is believed to be at the center of our own galaxy, the milky way.\n\nonce again, no one has really seen one, just the indirect evidence that one exists (strange star orbits, gas being sucked into nothing, strange bursts of some kind of rays (can't remember what kind) coming out of the poles, etc.\n\neverybody is pretty convinced that they exist.  its just kinda hard to prove.\n\nps the idiot down there who said black holes are dead galaxies has no clue what he is talking about. please ignore him.  and its not the size of an atom, its an infinitely small point, the swartzchild point.
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Just about all of your questions are addressed at the source below.\n\nTo me, you just seem to be trolling. If you read the article, it gives possible explanations under "Theoretical problems".\n\nYou're not some miracle thinker who's "thinking outside the box." Solar astronomers know what they're talking about. They don't just say, "Oh! Gee! We were totally owned by this Yahoo! kid!" Please. They're also okay not knowing things. That's why they study: to figure things out.\n\nBut I suppose you think the sun is really powered by an alien civilization's equivalent to a battery, and by controlling solar wind they were able to cause 9/11. Right?
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the sun is not the largest star in the milky way galaxy. just so you know. there are many more stars larger than it. and in a few billion years, the sun will go supernova, expanding many millions of miles to engulf all of the smaller planets, like mercury and Earth.
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do you really think they dont have telescopes? if they have the tech to transverse solar systems then dont you think they can devise a device to look at us from afar? after seeing what a warring species we are it seems theyd rather study us from afar. we're dangerous.
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Keep trying. The problem is that we know that the sun is a hydrogen reactor at very extreme temperatures. Stars need to have this nuclear process to provide the energy that they do. You mentioned that planets are the remains of burnt out stars. However, stars have a very distinct lifecycle resulting in phenomena such as super nova, red giants, white dwarfs etc. Given the ratio of planets to stars in our observable universe and timescales involved. I don't think you have thought about your proposal deep enough. As for your law - gravity is universal - all masses are subject to  gravitational influence. Given this, your water droplet is counter acting the effects of gravity due to a temperature related process. The surface temperature of the tin exhibits a hydrophobic effect. Whereas at lower temperatures the tin is no longer hydrophobic.
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Sun has finished its half of age and after some billions of years its gonna die. In the same way earth will be getting cooler it is gonna die.\n\nSun is a star. It will become a red supergiant. It's size will increase tremendously and it will gulp down mercury and venus. The temperature on earth will be unbelievable. Then it will become supernova and then there are three chances for sun to become 1. nebula  2. Neutron star or the worst nightmare 3. black hole.\n\nAbout dying here this one too. If the night sky is clear and with your naked eyes if u see in the right direction u can see andromeda galaxy - which is light years away. It is said that billions of billions of billions of years after...one day milky way (our galaxy) and andromeda will clash\n\nOr else talking about earth if not after billions of years when earth will die may be a little earlier ya earlier than sun becoming the red supergiant...the life especially human life may be in a serious danger. The threat is of asteroid impacts in 2014 or 2029 or 2880 or adverse climatic change in 2100 or another ice age!\n\nThere is a theory of Wormholes. Through these we can travel from one point of the universe to the other with a speed more than or equal to that of light. May be then we will be able to go somewhere.
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There's not much question that the sun is a nuclear fusion machine. You don't need this direct evidence
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I think that the extiction of earth is true maybe.  \n\nAll stars "fade" or die away eventually.  Well, we all know the sun is a star.  (biggest star :)) \n\nThus, the sun (star) is going to eventually die away.  Humans can not live without enery source from the sun.  Thus that's why scientist say that the earth is going to be extincted or whatever.\n\nAnyway, that's from like 5th grade or something... i'm in 6th now...\n\nwww.diamondgemztone.piczo.com\n<>dia gemz\nsheri
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Hot topic! Woo-eee. This is one of the creationist versus non-creationist hot potatoes!\n\nHere's why, some creationists say if the sun were shrinking steadily, then a  long time ago, it might have been so big and hot as to turn the surface of the Earth into a pit of fire. So nothing would be alive, say when the Earth was a billion years old.\n\nScientists who study the Sun believe that it is a huge ball of glowing gases and matter. Gravity wants to pull all the stuff together, to shrink it. Heat from nuclear and other reactions in the center of the sun wants to blast it all away, to make it grow.\n\nThe Sun seems to have reached a temporary balance point and so it is the size that it is right now.\n\nSome observations were thought to show that the Sun was shrinking during 6 years of monitoring.\n\nOther studies show that the Sun might sometimes expand and shrink at different times. Just like a candle flame will flare up and then settle down again.\n\nThere are no mainstream scientists claiming that the Sun has been STEADILY shrinking since the beginning. They are only investigating to see what might be happening.\n\nSome astronomy research about the possibility of the Sun shrinking has been used by some groups such as the Institute for Creation Research as evidence for a young Earth. The idea being that this research agrees with their way of reading Holy Scripture. Their view is that the Earth is not very old.\n\nOther writers point out that the astronomy research about the size of the sun is interesting and important work about small-scale, and SHORT-TERM changes in stellar structure. And it may or may not have anything to add to the creation debate.\n\nMost solar research and theory shows that stars are initially formed by coalescing matter -- they shrink. But only until a balance is reached. Then over long periods of time stars might oscillate in size as different types of chemical and nuclear reactions take place. Some stars become super-giants, others zoom outward and then crush inwards to tiny sizes. \n\nThese are just theories based on mathematical models and observations of different sized suns and novas. No one knows for sure in a secular sense.