What Actually 'Stars' & 'Planets' Are?

A star is like a giant fireball in the sky, and a planet is like a big rock that dances around it.

Imagine you have a flashlight, that’s like a star. When you turn it on, it shines bright, just like how real stars light up the universe. Now, if you put a toy ball in front of your flashlight and move it around, that’s like a planet, it’s not glowing by itself, but it follows the light.

A star is born when a huge cloud of gas and dust gets squeezed together so tight that it starts to burn. This burning is called nuclear fusion, it's like a giant kitchen where atoms are cooking non-stop, making light and heat.

A planet forms from the leftover stuff around a new star. It’s more like a rock or a big ball made of ice and rocks that orbits the star, just like how Earth orbits the Sun.

So when you look up at the night sky, some things are glowing on their own (stars) and others are just traveling around them (planets). You can think of it like having a flashlight and a toy ball, one shines bright, the other moves around it.