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Why do stars appear to be bigger in the night?

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Answer: in the daytime the sun is out so the stars are not visible becuase the suns reflection! At night When you gaze at the constellations, every star produces an image that's the same size, but your retina isn't sensitive enough to respond to the outer parts of those images except for the brighter stars — which therefore look bigger than the fainter ones.

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This is what I found on goog.le a while ago now it might actually help if I’m wrong I apologiz, I hope this was your quistion!

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