A livelier night sky

Anyone who knows me knows that I’m very fascinated by anything related to our universe so when I saw this visual representation of what our night sky would look like if the planets of the Solar System were as close to us as our Moon, I had to post about it.

The link is here:

Here’s what we normally see on a moonlit night:

Now, if Mercury replaced the Moon, this is what we’d see:

Not too impressive, given Mercury’s size, but Venus is already quite more interesting:

And when you add Mars’ red shade:

Impressive size-wise are both Uranus:

And Neptune:

But obviously the greatest spectacle is offered by Saturn:

And Jupiter, my all time favorite:

Now obviously if planets like Saturn and Jupiter were to ever come that close to the Earth our home planet would cease to exist, but imagine the spectacle!!

What’s your favorite?