I heard that the moon is bigger than the sun? Is that true.

Question

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Answer 1

Here's a visual aid toward an understanding of scale. The moon is not included but the earth is so it's pretty easy to see how much smaller the moon would be. And it's also good for realizing just how "small" our sun is compared to other stars. It's just "average".

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PS, the only reason the moon looks to be the same size as the sun in our sky is because the moon is so much closer to us.

Answer 2

The moon is very much smaller than the sun.

Our view on Earth is such that....both the sun and the moon actually look to be the same size....that's why we can still have a total solar eclipse.

Someday..that won't be the case..as our moon is moving away from us at a rate of about 1 1/2 inches per year.

Answer 3

  It depends on who you heard it from.

Answer 4

no it's just closer

Answer 5

here's an experiment.

hold out your hand, cover the view of your dad's Buick with your palm.

now, which is bigger?  your palm or the Buick?

depends on perspective.

on an absolute scale, the Moon is MUCH smaller than the Sun, but on a relative scale, they are both about the same size in the sky.  Sometimes the Moon is slightly larger than the Sun and we get a total eclipse, sometimes, due to the Moon's elliptical orbit (and the Earth's) the Moon is smaller than the Sun and we get an "Annular" eclipse.  This is when the Sun appears like a ring of light around the 'smaller' blocking Moon.

Answer 6

False

Answer 7

The moon is smaller than the Earth and you can fit 1,000,000 earths in the sun. No it is not bigger than the sun.  

Answer 8

No, the moon is smaller than the sun. A moon revolves around a planet, and a planet revolves around a large star. In the case of our solar system, all of the planets revolve around the sun.

Answer 9

its WAY smaller

Answer 10

No.

"The Sun happens to be 400 times the Moon's diameter, and 400 times as far away. That coincidence means the Sun and Moon appear to be the same size when viewed from Earth. A total solar eclipse, in which the Moon is between the Earth and Sun, blocks the bright light from the Sun's photosphere, allowing us to see the faint glow from the corona, the Sun's outer atmosphere.

"The Moon has approximately 1/4 Earth's diameter."

Answer 11

Considering that the moon is smaller than Earth & 1000 Earths can fit into the sun . . .

Answer 12

Whoever you heard that from needs to have a decent space book thrown at them, saying the least. The Sun is indeed, bigger than the Moon. However; due to their position i.e. the Moon being closer and the Sun being farther, they do look like they have about the same size in the sky.

Answer 13

It can look that way since the Moon is much closer than the sun.

Answer 14

No the moon is way smaller than the sun. The sun is huge you could fit 1.3 million earths inside the sun. And what is really amazing that there are other stars out there way bigger than our sun.