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A what distance could we see the Sun?
How far away can we see the Sun with the naked eye?
How far with an amateur telescope? And with the James Webb telescope?
In my own calculations the Sun would appear magnitude 6 at 56 ly, magnitude 8 (...
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What fraction of starlight, seen from Earth, is actually reflected light?
Thanks to reflected starlight, many planets and comets in the Solar System have been visible to humans since long before the development of modern astronomy.
Some of the starlight from outside the ...
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Stars in the sky
Are the stars we can see with the naked eye in the night sky only from our Milky Way galaxy or can we see stars from Andromeda? I am aware we can see other celestial objects like nebulas and the ...
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How many stars and galaxies can be seen by the naked eye?
How many of the luminous dots that we see naked are galaxies and not stars from our galaxy?
I imagine that the majority of the luminous points that we see naked eye during the night, are actually ...
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