Every morning, just before sunrise, I've been seeing a very bright star in the sky?
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Most likely Venus, as those above me have stated, but Jupiter is also a possibility.  \n\nStarmaps are readily available on the internet, and that would tell you for sure. \n\nHowever, a more fun way to find out would be to take a telescope outside and look at the planet.  Even a very low-end model telescope will have the resolution to see the moons of Jupiter.  Watch it for a week, if you don't see any moons or the giant red spot, it's Venus.
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I think maybe the separation is smaller than the resolving power of my eyes rather than the angular separation of my eyes. So I can't resolve the two sources and just see one bright star. \n\nBest of luck - Mike
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Yes the Sun is a star.\n\nAnd off topic...\n\nDoes anybody find excessive cutting and pasting a boor??
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this week, if you look east at about 9:30pm local time, you will see Jupiter just above the horizon.  At about 1am, it will be high in the sky to the south.  just before sunrise, it will be just about to set in the west.\n\nsubtract two hours from each of these times for these positions for every month you add to right now.\n\noh, wait.  a picture.  you don't actually want to find it in the sky.  go to http://www.nineplanets.org and click on "Jupiter".
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Watch the stars outside if it's a clear night
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Have you ever looked at the sky and seen a shooting star?\n\nThese are meteors burning up as the enter the atmosphere.  Is this what you are talking about?
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look at a really really bright light
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Actually it's Satan.  The "Morning Star" was what Lucifer was called before he was cast down to earth.
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science_FREAK, you think the furthest star is just 82 million km away????!!!  That wouldn't even take us out of our own solar system!  In fact, our star, the Sun, is 150 million km away!\n\nIf you mean why do some stars "appear" brighter than others, then that is because stars are at different distances from the Earth, and they are different sizes.  IF you had 2 identical stars, but one was twice the distance from the Earth that the other, then the further away one would appear much dimmer in the sky.\n\nBut all stars shine with a slightly different brightness, I doubt that any two are identical.  So the appearance of some stars being brighter than others is down to size of stars and how far away from us that they are.
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They are still up there in the sky. You cannot see most of them because they are too dim, compared to the brightness of the sky.\nThe blue sky we see is the scattered light from the sun, and it tends to wash out the stars.\nHowever you CAN SEE  STARS in the daytime. Take a trip to your local planetarium, they can take you out and show you what stars are visible in the daylight.\n\nThere are a couple of stars that are bright enough to be visible in the daylight.\nFirst off, Venus is easily seen in the daytime sky, Jupiter is sometimes visible, but very hard to find (in my experience anyway) and the star Sirius is also easily found in the daytime sky. During an eclipse you can often seen dozens of stars in the sky before the sun comes back out and the sky gets bright again.\n\nAnd of course there is one bright star that is easily seen in the daylight, OUR SUN!
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As all the others said, the sun is a star, and you see it every day. Sometimes, in early morning or in late afternoon, some of the most prominent start may be visible, mostly on the horizon.\n\nAll the stars which you can see by night is still there during the day, but the sun's light is so bright that we cannot see past its brightness to where the stars are.\n\nI once heard in an astronomy class that it is able to see a star in the day, but the light of the star has to fall directly in the mid-center of your eye, and that takes some doing.\n\nLastly, there are certain occasions where stars are visible during the day. I remember when I was in primary school, the Planet Venus (although not a star) was visible next to the moon right in the middle of the day. If Venus can be visible at that time, then why not any other star?\n\nHope I could help you...
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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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between 10am -2pm the sun is high in the sky. with a high hummity it is posible to see a rainbow all the way  around the sun
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I have never seen a ufo, but every once in a while there is a small bluish purple dot in the sky that looks like a purple pink-blueish star, it flashes and is really odd. I looked at maps and everything, there are no little radio crappy shows, or anything. in fact it's a big field in nowhere, it's scary. I'm too chicken to drive out there and see what it is. It's creppy where I live.
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It's going to be difficult to tell you more than I know, but I'll give it my best shot.\n\nThe sun is big and bright and hot.  It is a giant fusion reactor creating energy by fusing atoms of matter together.  The energy is transmitted out into space as photons of light.\n\nIt is a medium sized yellow star which began making energy about 4 billion years ago and is estimated to have about 5 billion years left before its fuel begins to run out.
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UFO???  I interpret this to be anything buzzing in the air that I have no clue what the heck it was,,, but this happens mostly just at night.. during tha daylight hours I can see things more clearly.\n\nDo I think aliens exhist??..The based on a true story movie "Fire in the sky" was pretty darn convincing
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yes, and there is a reason, it was in a Readers Digest a while back 1980's, but if memory serves it has to do with where a storm front is, if one is just leaving and high pressure system is replacing it, you will see vividly red skies at night, if one is just coming in replacing a high pressure system (which usually is good weather) you will see vividly red skies in the morning.  Keep in mind that this is 22 years ago.\n\nJust found this on the net:\n\nA red sunset is often seen when the western sky is especially clear. The colour occurs because the sun is low in the sky, and its light passes through additional atmosphere. The colour is enhanced if a stable high pressure region is present. The reason for this is that high pressure suppresses cloud formation and holds air pollutants near the Earth. These pollutants further scatter the colours of sunlight, enhancing the reddening effect in the west.\n\nSince high pressure generally brings good weather, red skies in the evening often indicate that fair weather is approaching from the west. On the other hand, if the red appears in the eastern morning sky, then the high pressure region has already passed through. Since lower pressure usually follows a high pressure system, and is often associated with unsettled weather, red sky in the morning can indicate stormy weather. \nhttp://www.scienceshorts.com/020514.htm\n\nNot bad for remembering something from 22 years ago.