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We don't have to think about it. We can do the math.

The distance between the planet and the star is ˜7,000,000 km. The diameter of the star is roughly 1.5 * the diameter of Jupiter: 207525 km. The angular size of the star from the surface of the planet will be the arcsin of (207525 / 7*10ˆ6) or about 1.7 degrees.

This is a little bigger than three times the apparent size of the full moon or the sun from Earth.



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