If stars come out at night and the sun is also a star, why does the sun come out during the day?

Question

If stars come out at night and the sun is also a star, why does the sun come out during the day?

Answer 1

The Sun outshines everything else in the sky, and because of Rayleigh scattering of sunlight, blue wavelengths in particular, the other stars are hidden from view in the daytime. Quite simply the Earth's atmosphere is why you do not see the other stars during the daytime. If you were on the surface of the moon or merely in Earth orbit, you would see stars all the time in a pitch black sky even if the Sun is above the horizon.

Answer 2

What about the moon?  The moon is more important than the sun.  The moon shines at night when it's dark, and the sun shines in the daytime when it's light anyway.

Answer 3

It doesn't "come out during the day". The sun is what causes the Earth to even have a day. The reason we see it so clearly though is because it is much closer than the stars that we see at night (when the Sun is not lighting up the sky where you live). But, all stars are there throughout the day and night, just not as visible.

Answer 4

The stars you see at night are billions and trillions of miles away while the sun is only I guess a few thousands or ten thousands away. Plus the earth revolves around the sun...actually I'm not getting into that deep of an answer for you. Ask your dang teacher!

Answer 5

Huh?

The sun doesn't "come out during the day". We call it day when the light of the sun, which happens to be the closest star to Earth, is observable from wherever we are. The only reason you don't see other stars during the day is, if i'm not mistaken, because of the sun's proximity to Earth: it "outshines" the other, farther, stars.

Answer 6

It is a little bit closer to us and, therefore, brighter than other stars.  The stars we see at night are still there moving across the sky whether it is day or night.  You can see stars during the day if you look up thru a suitable long tube (like a chimney).  There have been supernovas that were bright enough to see during the day (even though they were very much farther away than our sun).  hope this helps

Answer 7

The sun is the nearest star to the Earth, all the other stars are hundreds and thousands of light years away. When the Earth rotates, a part of it is lighted by the sun and so there is what we call "day". The other stars can't compete with the sunlight, thus they cannot be seen.

The other part of the earth not hit by the sun is, in turn, dark. The other starts which are very very far from the earth now have no competition so they can be seen.

Answer 8

Because the sun (sol) is much much much closer, which makes it much brighter. So it is what causes the day when the earth spins to face the sun where you are.

Answer 9

Stars are out all the time. The sun is brighter, so you can't see the smaller stars during the day.  

Answer 10

Stars are out all the time. The earth is between the sun and the stars on the other side of the world at night. During the day, if you go into a deep hole, you can look up and see stars.

Answer 11

This is a common misconcpetion about the sky. The stars are out all the time. They don't just come out at night.... there are stars in the day. We just can't see them because of the sun making the sky so bright. The sun's light is so powerful, that it makes it impossible for any stars to show up. If there was no sun, we would be seeing stars 24/7.

Answer 12

The stars are actually always out!  We just cannot see them during the daytime because the sunlight is so bright, and scatters throughout the atmosphere, making all the fainter "night sky" objects invisible.  They are simply too dim.

The sun "comes out" during the day because of the earth's rotation on it's axis.  Earth is constantly spinning, so that at any given point in time, 1/2 is in sunlight (facing the sun) and half is in darkness (facing away from the sun).  When sunrise occurs, the part of the earth you are on is spinning so that you are starting to face the sun.  At sunset, the spin means you are starting to face away from it.

Answer 13

Stars are everywhere all the time. Some are even bigger and brighter than the sun. But they are so far away that they appear pretty dim to us. Since the sun compared to other stars is right next to us it appears very bright so you can't see the more distant ones. You see them at night cause that's when the part of the planet you are on is facing away from the sun and without that drowning out the light of the other stars we can see them. you can actually see many more if you're away from large cities that put off a lot of light. You'll be surprised by how many there are in our galaxy alone.

Answer 14

It's all a matter of wave length frequencies. The sun is the closest star (not the biggest) to earth at an average of 93 million miles. The light from the sun cancels out the light from other stars. As does a well lit city.  To get a clear view of the stars you would need an area that does not have any light intereference.

Answer 15

  Because it's afraid of the dark?