Eli5 why aren’t planets after Saturn visible? Glowey?

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If light travels in straight line and isn’t obstructed till it hits something then why are the front stars easily visible but the the last ones aren’t like does sunlight doesn’t reach those little shits? I can’t see youranus neither Neptune and other ones but after a while planets are visible yet again? Like are they out of the solar system and someone else glows then or what?

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Things that are further away need to be larger in order to see them. Saturn and Jupiter are both easily visible because of how huge they are. Uranus and Neptune are both significantly smaller than Jupiter and Saturn, and further away, so they reflect less sunlight back at Earth.

Uranus actually is visible with the naked eye, but only in areas of the world where there isn’t much light pollution.

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