I’ve always thought that stars in the sky are well, stars. But I just started to wonder, that are they just other stars or can we also see planets and such with our naked eyes? Like can the star be so bright that it could reflect the light from the planet so we can see it with just our eyes? Or are they all just other stars like our sun?
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You can see planets with the naked eye! Two of the brightest spots you see in the sky are actually venus (has a dense, very reflective atmosphere) and jupiter (just fucking huge). They reflect the light of the sun, just as the moon does.
But if you go out of our solar system, you just see stars with the naked eye. Exoplanets (planets, which are not in our solar system) are just too small to see them and they dont reflect enough light.
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