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Anonymous

Oct 31, 2024

How can the sun have both a brightness of -26.73 and 4.83? Explain what these numbers mean.

How can the Sun have both a brightness of -26.73 and 4.83? Could you explain what these values represent and how they relate to the Sun's luminosity and apparent magnitude?

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Anonymous

Oct 26, 2024

The Sun is by far the brightest object in the sky, with an apparent magnitude of -26.74, which is about 13 billion times brighter than the next brightest star (Sirius, which has an apparent magnitude of -1.46). The mean distance of the Sun to Earth is approximately 1 astronomical unit or AU (150,000,000 km/93,000,000 mi), though this changes due to variations in Earth’s orbit.

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