In other words, the gravitational collapse ... radiation pressure from the fusion reactions. The Sun is expected to be a main sequence star for billions of years.

The queen of planets rises two and a half hours ahead of the sun on July 1 ... by Gemma (or Alphecca), its brightest star. If you have a star chart, try finding Libra, the scales, just west ...

How different? Martin Vargic with Halcyon Maps has created a series of sunsets where he replaced our sun with other stars. In the images below, Vargic used what we know about stars and scattering ...