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Saturn and its rings would cover almost 18 degrees of the night sky.
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.
Space expert Ron Miller dedicated hours to painstakingly recreating seven out-of-this-world scenes highlighting the sheer size of the planets.
Ron, 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.
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.
Venus, the smallest of the planets, is still 3.5 times bigger than the moon while Saturn would be so huge its iconic rings would stretch from horizon to horizon.
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Saturn and its rings would cover almost 18 degrees of the night sky.
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.
Space expert Ron Miller dedicated hours to painstakingly recreating seven out-of-this-world scenes highlighting the sheer size of the planets.
Ron, 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.
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.
Venus, the smallest of the planets, is still 3.5 times bigger than the moon while Saturn would be so huge its iconic rings would stretch from horizon to horizon.
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