All messages will be reviewed before being displayed. It would take a spaceship 8.60 years travelling at the speed of light to get there. Our own Sun is the brightest star and therefore has the lowest of all magnitudes, -26.74. Betelgeuse, MU Cephei, VV Cephei A and VY Canis Majoris. Canopus is quite large in size, with a diameter 71.4 times that of the Sun. Placed in the centre of the solar system, the star’s surface would extend to about 90 percent of the distance from the Sun to Mercury. When the Moon is at its apogee, that is farthest from the Earth, its apparent diameter is smaller than that of the sun at this point of its orbit is too small to completely cover the solar disk. 0 … She is big and beautiful to us. The age of the system has been estimated at around 230 million years.
Comparison of the sizes of stars : Image: Comparative sizes of some super giant stars like Antares, Betelgeuse, Rigel, Aldebaran and some white dwarfs as Arcturus, Pollux, Sirius and the Sun (left). The location of the dwarf star in the night sky is determined by the Right Ascension (R.A.) and Declination (Dec.), these are equivalent to the Longitude and Latitude on the Earth. Aldebaran, Rigel, Antares, Betelgeuse. The distance of the Moon varies during the month between 363,104 and 405,696 km, it is a function of the eccentricity of the lunar orbit and hence its apparent size as seen from Earth also varies. To give idea of size, the Sun is 99.86% the mass of the solar system. Sirius B is a white dwarf star, companion to the much brighter Sirius A star. The star itself would have an apparent magnitude of -37, compared to the Sun’s -27.5. The planets are as dust compared to blue and red Giant of our universe. Two or three times a year, Solar Dynamics Observatory of NASA observed the moon passing in front of the sun, as the right image taken on October 7, 2010.
When the Moon is at perigee, i.e. which to calculate using this website is too large. A name is preferred even if its a random made up one by yourself. The Sun's Mass is 1,989,100,000,000,000,000,000 billion kg. The largest known star up to date. Sirius B Mass. Since the Sun is the best-known star for us, solar radius and solar mass are two useful units of measurement to depict how big is a star. Jupiter, the largest planet in the system, has captured 71% of the remainder. closer to the Earth, its apparent diameter is larger than that of the Sun, at this point in its orbit is large enough to completely cover the solar disk.
Currently 10,000 times less luminous in the visual spectrum, Sirius B was once the more massive of the two. She takes up 99.8 percent of all of the mass of our solar system and compared to her planets, she is so vast in size as to appear almost incomprehensible to us.