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[–] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

Every one of those stars is another, massive sun with the power to roast any ball of rock orbiting too close. Every single surat out there is a genuine point source of light (no discernible shape) with use of nearly any device available. By naked eye, five of them can be planets - other huge, spinning balls of material that we've probed and viewed, and yet, they are so incredibly distant that they're indistinguishable from stars unless you have s few extra pieces of knowledge. There's only two bodies we can see by eye that have any shape, being the sun (very huge) and moon (very close). That's insane. The distances are unfathomable by the human mind. We are not space faring creatures. Other planets are not escapes. This is where we live. This is our planet. It's the only one we have. And we're arguing about it being to expensive to help the needy.