        “Of course not!  Most of the stars are really far away.  Dozens of millions of miles, or maybe more.  We don’t really know.  Clopernicus thought that all the stars were like our sun, but a long ways away.  Apparently, he convinced Princess Celestia to experiment, and she could tell they were the same.  She couldn’t do anything with them—since they were so far—but she apparently flared one while he was observing it with his telescope.  It took days before he saw a glimmer.