Curiously

How big is the sun from each planet

If you were standing on Mercury or Venus, do you know how big the sun would appear? Do you think the sun would be so large on the surface of these interior planets that it might fill up the sky?

Or if you were standing on the surface of Jupiter or Saturn, how big would the sun appear, would it still be as shiny as it appears here on earth?

To answer these questions, I made the below visual using Python and the scaled average distances of the planets from the Sun.

sun_angular_size_by_planet

Quite interesting isn't it? Sun still looks relatively small from Mercury, showing how far Mercury actually from the Sun. And see how similar the Sun looks from Venus as it does from Earth, this is a rough indication of how close Venus is to Earth. And see how tiny the Sun appears from Neptune? Imagine if we were living on Neptune, how lonely we would feel being so far away from the Sun.

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