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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

Sunday, June 23, 2013 9:52

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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.

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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.

Huge: The diameter of Jupiter is 40 times that of the moon and it would dominate the night sky if it were in the same position

Mr Miller, from West Virginia, USA, said: ‘We are all familiar with the moon in our skies but many people struggle to appreciate the sheer size of the planets we share our solar system with.

‘The planets are just a vague concept to a lot of people and even the moon is just a fuzzy ball in the sky.

‘I had a bright idea one morning to create a series of illustrations in which the moon is replaced with other planets, something I don’t think has been done before. I wanted the illustrations to be thought-provoking and catch people’s imaginations.

Orb: Uranus would look a similar size to Neptune, according to Mr Miller, who has created the images to highlight the size of the planets

By ROSIE TAYLOR

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2345679/Photographer-Ron-Miller-creates-incredible-pictures-look-like-planets-closer.html

Also visit Ron Miller space art:

http://www.black-cat-studios.com/spaceart.html

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