Eli5 do all the stars we see on sky at night are away from our solar system?

Question

Eli5 do all the stars we see on sky at night are away from our solar system?

In: Physics

Answer 1

There’s only one star in our solar system – The Sun.

A few of the “stars” that we see in the night sky are actually planets in our solar system – Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Uranus and Neptune can normally be seen only with a telescope, although in some you can (barely) see Uranus without one.

The rest of the stars actually are other stars in our galaxy.