12. When we are out beyond the Earth's atmosphere and look outward to the stars, can we tell that they are different distances away? Do they look bigger, and do we have any depth perception in space? (A K2S Question)

From The Space Library

No, the stars are still so far away that they are just points of light, so we don't get a three-dimensional view of them. Only if we could fly close to another star would it look bigger.

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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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