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THE UNIVERSE
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With the use of the Hubble Telescope, scientists recently discovered a giant runaway star. It is 90 times bigger than the sun and is not very hot and red in color. It is also a very bright star, how come from Earth it does not seem as bright as the sun?
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the sun is different color than the runaway star
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the sun is older than the runaway star
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the sun is closer to earth than the runaway star
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the sun is made of different elements than the runaway star
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -We, in our humble Solar System, are roughly 28, 000 light years away from it. In short, this region is simply too far for us to see with the naked eye.
Detailed explanation-2: -Why does Earth get more energy from the sun than from all the other stars in the universe combined? The sun is much larger than the other stars.
Detailed explanation-3: -Because light takes time to travel from one place to another, we see objects not as they are now but as they were at the time when they released the light that has traveled across the universe to us.
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