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  • Stars Beyond Our Solar System: Why We See Them at Night
    You can't see any stars *within* our solar system. Here's why:

    * Our Sun is the only star in our solar system. All the other objects (planets, moons, asteroids, comets, etc.) orbit around our Sun.

    * Stars are extremely far away. The closest star to our Sun, Proxima Centauri, is about 4.24 light-years away. That's incredibly far!

    So, the stars you see at night are all outside our solar system, in other star systems. They are so distant that they appear as tiny pinpricks of light.

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