You probably know that feeling when you‘re trying to understand how big the universe really is, but you end up with your head about to explode. It gets slightly easier when there‘s some kind of context available, so we can make comparisons and get an idea of scale.
A while ago, a guy behind the Youtube channel named Yeti Dynamics created a video showing how big the planets in our solar system actually are, by placing them in a context we are familiar with: sky. The video was recently shared on Instagram and became quite popular in just a few days. Since the moon is something we see every night, Yeti Dynamics decided to replace it with other planets to give us an opportunity to understand their real size. This video shows us how would we see the sky if the Moon was replaced by Mars, Venus, Neptune, Uranus, Jupiter, and Saturn (Mercury and Pluto are intentionally not shown by the author since they‘re pretty much the same size as the Moon). Starting from the smallest, the video ends with Saturn, which would actually look quite surreal if it was so close to Earth. Scroll down to see it for yourself!
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This video replaces the Moon with other planets in our solar system to show how big they are
Mars
Venus
Neptune
Uranus
Jupiter
Saturn
You can see it in the video below:
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If I saw Saturn orbiting the earth I would thing the world would be ending
Gravity would destroy earth and add it to Saturn's rings
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If you want a story in this astronomical vein look up 'Inconstant Moon', season 2, episode 12 of 'The Outer Limits'. It's poop-your-pants-worthy, although not as much as 'Melancholia' by Lars von Trier...
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Imagine if Saturn just appeared in the sky one day!! The world would literally s**t it's pants!
What would be really interesting would be to have a sidebar of some sort that would indicate how the tides would change if those planets were sitting where the moon is. And for the particularly inquisitive amongst us it would be so cool to know how the Earth and each planet would have to orbit around each other in order to keep the Earth-Moon distance, and how that would affect our day length in terms of both facing the sun, and having light reflected of the neighbouring planet.
Yeah, I know - I think too hard about these things...
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Just thinking of gravity and size of planet.... an average person would weigh 400lbs on Jupiter and 10lbs on Pluto :)
Well it would depend on the distance. In most of these situations our gravity would be screwed, we'd be thrown out of orbit, and the seas and weather would be best up. Technically though in the night sky we can see most of these.
Krasnoyarsk in the orbit of Jupiter. 2735_8001-...b9dbd7.jpg 
what a great idea about how to share the size differences. Very creative! I liked it and appreciate it very much.
I LOVE THESE!!! I think I'd get bit if inertia looking at Neptune, Uranus, Saturn and Jupiter, though. I'd be super excited, trying to wrap my mind around how massive and majestic it all is while trying not to puke like crazy. WOW!!!!
If I saw Saturn orbiting the earth I would thing the world would be ending
Gravity would destroy earth and add it to Saturn's rings
Load More Replies... If you want a story in this astronomical vein look up 'Inconstant Moon', season 2, episode 12 of 'The Outer Limits'. It's poop-your-pants-worthy, although not as much as 'Melancholia' by Lars von Trier...
Load More Replies... Imagine if Saturn just appeared in the sky one day!! The world would literally s**t it's pants!
What would be really interesting would be to have a sidebar of some sort that would indicate how the tides would change if those planets were sitting where the moon is. And for the particularly inquisitive amongst us it would be so cool to know how the Earth and each planet would have to orbit around each other in order to keep the Earth-Moon distance, and how that would affect our day length in terms of both facing the sun, and having light reflected of the neighbouring planet.
Yeah, I know - I think too hard about these things...
Load More Replies... Just thinking of gravity and size of planet.... an average person would weigh 400lbs on Jupiter and 10lbs on Pluto :)
Well it would depend on the distance. In most of these situations our gravity would be screwed, we'd be thrown out of orbit, and the seas and weather would be best up. Technically though in the night sky we can see most of these.
Krasnoyarsk in the orbit of Jupiter. 2735_8001-...b9dbd7.jpg
what a great idea about how to share the size differences. Very creative! I liked it and appreciate it very much.
I LOVE THESE!!! I think I'd get bit if inertia looking at Neptune, Uranus, Saturn and Jupiter, though. I'd be super excited, trying to wrap my mind around how massive and majestic it all is while trying not to puke like crazy. WOW!!!!
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