SOLAR SYSTEM

Detailed explanation-1: -Stars make their own light, just like our sun (the sun is a star-the closest star to Earth). But the stars are very, very far away from our solar system so they appear to be very tiny to us, even though up close they are large. The planets are much closer, inside our solar system.

Detailed explanation-2: -The light from a star is sent out in all directions, and is largely unimpeded in its path from the star to us, as on average there is very little matter to block the star’s light between the star and us.

Detailed explanation-3: -Because of the closer distance, the sun looks very big compared to the other stars. The other stars are far away from our planet like millions of kilometres away compared to the distance from the sun. Hence, they look very small.

Detailed explanation-4: -A star is a giant spherical ball of plasma. Furthermore, all the stars that we can see (apart from our Sun) are so far away that they appear to us as perfect little dots. The answer to why we draw stars as pointy objects, is because our eyes actually see them as having points.

Detailed explanation-5: -Though sun is not the biggest or brightest star, it appears so because it is the nearest star from us. Since the distance is very less, it appears bigger and brighter. As the distance of other stars from us increases, their brightness and size appears to be less.