Back to Article List From the August 2008 issue Can telescopes see a star’s disk? Timothy J. Morris, Sutton Coldfield, England By Astronomy Staff | Published: August 25, 2008 Yes. The distances to most stars are so great that even the largest, the supergiants, appear only as points of light through normal telescopes.
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