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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Mercury is like 30-50 sun's diameters away from the sun. This perspective makes it look like it's almost touching.

Size scale matches though

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Yeah this perspective is weird. It makes it look like the sun takes up 90% of the sky on mercury. That can’t be right though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

The sun is rather large.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Almost 30 million miles closer to us than the sun is.