07. What do stars look like up close? Do they really have points and shapes like we draw them? What would they feel like? Are they sharp, and would it hurt to touch one? (A K2S Question)

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Most stars would look very similar to the Sun. The pointy shapes that we draw are not the way stars look up close. The spikes that appear in photographs of stars are artifacts caused by the telescope or camera used to take the picture.

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Answer provided by Dirk Terrell, Ph.D.

Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie Schorer

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