Sally Tinsman, age 80 of Peoria, Illinois, for her question:

What is the difference between a star and a planet?

Our earth is a planet and our sun is a star, Our starry qgn is a blazing fires big enough to hold a million earths, Our earth is a sizable chunk of solid matter, circling around the sun. First one side, then the other is warmed and lighted by its parent star, the sun,

Most of the twinkling spots in our night sky are stars.. But here and there we can spot a planet which like our earthy is a member of  our Solar System, Some of the brightest "star s" we see ere really planets, Sometimes our neighbors the planet Venus, appears brighter than any real star in the sky,

There are two ways in which you can pick out the planets in the starry skies, One a planet does not twinkle like a star, It shines with a steady light of reflected sunshine Two, if you watch a planet long enough, it seems to move across the background of distant stars. It seems in a greater hurry to move over the sky.