What planets can be seen as stars in the sky?
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Depends what time of the year it is etc. but you can nearly always see Jupiter and Saturn and if a planet is at opposition then it is at its brightest when viewed from earth. Venus and Mars are also easy to spot. Mercury is elusive as it is generally close to the sun. I don't think you can see Pluto without a telescope, or Neptune and Uranus without some form of magnification e.g. binoculars
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Either get a starguide book or google for on the internet and it will tell you the position of the stars and planets in the sky.  It should let you figure out there exact position for the sky where you live any for any day and time you want to look.  There are also many programs that you can get for your computer that do that and more!  Google has great maps of the moon and there are many astronomy web sites or forums where you can learn lots about the planets, stars, how to use your telescope and lots of other cool stuff!  Hope you have fun with your new toy!!
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Well, in a very general sense, it's best to view stars and *some* planets between 10pm and midnight.  You'd have to look up the positions of each planet (or the major ones, anyway) to figure out when all of them are in sight.
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You'll see stars, moon, sun, galaxies and other heavenly bodies.
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What you see outside at night is a mixture of these:\nStars (like the sun)\nPlanets\nSattelites\nGalaxies
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Watch the stars outside if it's a clear night
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yes. All The gas giants in our solar system have ring systems. Even uranus. neptune's is very faint and hard to see.
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They are called extrasolar planets, and there is great info about them at the following sites\n\nhttp://www.nineplanets.org/other.html\nhttp://curious.astro.cornell.edu/extrasolarplanets.php\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extrasolar_planets\n\nFor a definitive list, try this site\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stars_with_confirmed_extrasolar_planets\n\n55 Cancri is an interesting one, as many feel it has similar characteristics to earth\n\nhttp://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=135\n\nHope that helps!
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All stars are round, and there are many trillions of stars, although you can only see about 3,000 of them at any one time without a telescope. The sun is a typical star, only much closer than all the others.
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There is no actual picture of the entire solar system. If one could be made, it is very unlikely that you would be able to see all the planets. I am sure you would only see The gas giants Jupiter and Saturn - as dots; maybe you will see Neptune and Uranus, that is about it. From earth if you look at Jupiter in the night sky it is as big as a star - though one of the brightest objects in night sky. From a position where you could see all the planets (the solar system is bigger than that, but let us restrict ourselves to only Pluto's orbit) you would see it as much smaller. Jupiter is 1,600 times bigger than earth (volume). Sun is a million times bigger. From most cities you can see Mars, Saturn, Jupiter and Venus. From a position where you could take a picture of all the planets you wont see all of them.\n\nEDIT: btw, I just remember I was talking about visibility of sun and planets. Actually if a photograph were taken jupiter and sun will be visible. The Sun is a star it will be visible not due to its size but due to the amount of light it gives. If we plotted it on a graph based only on its size and not its luminosity, it will be as visible as anything on the graph and no more. So if we drew an illustration 1024 pixels wide (most 17 inch computer screens are 1024x768 pixels) and put sun on the left most pixel and Neptune on the right most pixel - none of them will be visible. The distance between sun and earth is 1 AU (1 astronomical unit). Sun's Diameter is 1/150 AU, Neptune is 30 AU away from sun. If we scale 30AU to a 1024 pixel screen every pixel is equal to 0.029 AU, anything smaller than 0.029 AU can not be represented on this screen, the sun is 0.006AU wide - 1/5th of a pixel. If you open MS Paint and put a dot with a pencil that is one pixel imagine 1/5th of that - that is sun's size scalled to a 1024x768 screen.\n\nAnyway, Cronides' second link is the answer you are looking for.
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You can see many of them with the naked eye, and some of the get pretty darn bright.  You can even see the inetrantional space station when it passes overhead.  Of course any of these objects will jusst look like a star moving across the sky at a decent rate.  But it is pretty cool.\n\nhttp://www.heavens-above.com will tell you exactly what is visible from your location on any night, as well as where to look.  You'll need a little bit of amature astronomy knowledge (magnitudes, reading a starchart) to get much out of it, but it is an awsome resource for this kind of thing.
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Yes you can see them -- as other have pointed out they are seen as object that moves across from sky in a matter of a minute of so -- far faster and completely steady unlike an air plane -- once you have seen one you will know.\n\nThey are best seen just after sun set (or just before sun rise) where it is dark at ground level but due to the curvature of the earth still sun light 100 mile above.   At this point you can clearly see the stateliest as the passes though sun light and become bright as a star.\n\nThe link below will search (click on the SkySearch) though a database of ~300 satellites which are easy to see, and give you a time for when you can see them locally.\n\nMake sure that you 1) provide the accurate information of where you are going to be looking, as a few miles does make a difference to both whether you can see them but also to the time, and 2) make sure you have a clock which is right to the second as that helps you look for the right thing.
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A very bright "star" that's usually reported is the planet Venus. It rises and sets close to the sun and has therefore in ancient times been given the names Eveningstar and Morningstar. \n\nIf you see a star that sets or rises just hours before or after the sun and is exceptionally bright, you're with highest probability looking at our neighbour planet Venus.
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The planet currently visible in the east in the evening is Jupiter. Less bright Mars and Saturn are visible in the west.\n\nVenus is currently visible in the east but in the morning not the evening. Because Venus is closer to the sun than we are It is always fairly close to the sun, which is why it is only visible in the evening or the morning. For this reason it is not possible for Venus to appear in the east in the evening, (the Sun sets in the west).\n\nThe other naked eye planet is Mercury, though I do not think this is currently visible in the night sky. Like Venus but more so, being closer still to the Sun, Mercury again is only ever visible in the evening or the morning.\n\nTheoretically Uranus is also a naked eye object, though I am not sure if it is currently visible in the night sky. Even if it is you would need very dark sky's, well away from any cities and excellent eyesight to have any chance of seeing it.
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Given the number of stars in our galaxy alone, its highly probably that a star like our own sun exists with satellites like our earth orbiting it.  Of course if you're looking for a name of another planet with life on it you won't find that just yet.
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stars, planets, comets, meteors
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Venus. This time of year though Venus is visible in the early morning so if you see this "star" at night rising from the east it may be Jupiter. It's quite bright as well.