Question: when you lookat the sunit looks big in space and it shines a beem of light but whe you look the sun from earth it just looks small and round why?

Sophie Holles answered on 14 Mar 2013:

It depends where you are in space, the sun is big compared to the earth. If you were in space but the same distance from the sun it would look the same size. Sometimes your eyes play a trick on your brain because of the perspective though, have you ever noticed that the sun and the moon look really big when they’re close to the horizon but they look smaller in the middle of the sky? This is because they look much smaller in perspective when they’re not next to anything in the middle of they sky.