Conventional images of the Earth and the moon place them close together, the moon hovering, seemingly, right over our planet's shoulder. Of course, this isn't accurate; we know just from looking at ...

The diameter of the moon is said to be 3474.8 km comparable to the distance from New York to Las Vegas, but if this is expressed in one pixel, the size of the sun will be as follows. I will scroll the ...

Illustration comparing the planets of the Solar System and the Sun on the same scale. The planets are shown to scale relative to each other but their distances are not. From left to right the bodies ...