The Universe as Youve Never Seen it Before: Photographer Creates Incredible Pictures of What it Would Look Like if Planets Were Closer

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The Universe as Youve Never Seen it Before: Photographer Creates Incredible Pictures of What it Would Look Like if Planets Were Closer

Former NASA art director Ron Miller created images of it would look like from Earth if planets replaced moon Astonishing images show Jupiter and Saturn would fill night sky while Mercury is only slightly bigger than moon An astronomical artist has created eye-opening illustrations imagining what the night sky would look like if the moon was replaced by the other planets in the solar system. Watch the video: The Universe as You've Never Seen it Before - What it Would Look Like if Planets Were Closer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1o_Wv8kaKs Massive: Saturn and its rings would cover almost 18 degrees of the night sky, according to Mr Miller's calculations Ron Miller, a former art director for NASA, used digital trickery to superimpose scale drawings of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune over the same landscape, highlighting the sheer size of the planets. The incredible drawings imagine each planet to be 233,812 miles from Earth - the same distance at which the moon orbits. Enormous planet Jupiter, around 11 times the size of Earth, would dominate the skies while Mars would appear to be around twice the size of the moon.

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