10 Fun Facts About Stars

5/5/2025

10 Fun Facts About Stars

1. The Sun is a star—our closest one!
2. Some stars are so big they could fit millions of Suns inside.
3. Stars come in different colors: blue, white, yellow, orange, and red.
4. The light from the nearest star (other than the Sun) takes over 4 years to reach us.
5. The largest known star, UY Scuti, is over 1,700 times the Sun’s radius.
6. Stars are born in clouds of gas and dust called nebulae.
7. A shooting star is actually a meteor burning up in Earth’s atmosphere.
8. Some stars exist in pairs or even groups—these are called binary or multiple star systems.
9. Across the whole sky, roughly 6,000 stars are visible to the naked eye, but only about half can be seen from any single location at a time.
10. Stars can live for millions to billions of years, depending on their size.

What’s the coolest star fact you know?