When you look up at the stars of the night-time sky, you will immediately notice that all of the stars do not have the same apparent brightness. All stars are the same size, brightness, and temperature, it's just that dim stars are far away and bright stars are close.
All stars are the same distance away, but some are naturally bright while others are just dim.
Bright stars are far away and dim stars are close. Write your answer in the form of a sentence, then compare your answer with another student. The brightness that a star has as seen from the Earth is called the apparent brightness . Stars which are very bright are called magnitude 1 stars . The next brightest are magnitude 2 stars.