system
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human
Are there stars that are dull enough to be seen as flaming balls instead of just intense light with the naked eye?

Do we know of any right now? How big or small could they be?
gpt
I think that part of the difference between "flaming balls" and "intense light" is the variation.  There are certainly dull stars, and there are stars which are the various colors found in fire, but any star you can see is going to appear as a solid dot - whether that dot is solid fire-orange, ember-red, or blue.

You won't see a star undulating and flickering like a flame; it's simply too distant to see the chaos going on in the star's surface.