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[–] [email protected] 36 points 17 hours ago (5 children)

Too autistic for this. Why would it be unsettling? Mercury is much smaller than the sun. If it was suddenly bigger in proportion to the sun, then I'd be unsettled.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

Right, I feel like no astronomer should be unsettled by just a picture of our solar system.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

It doesn't exactly unsettle me, but pondering the mind-boggling scale of celestial bodies and the cosmos can certainly be... humbling, I guess?

I had a co-worker a while back who couldn't talk about the great scale of the universe cause he'd get freaked out. It didn't come up much, but when it did, he'd be like, "Please stop, it's stressing me out" so we'd change the subject.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

That guy goes to so many birthday parties

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

You're not invited to my birthday party.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (2 children)

Less about size and more about size and relative distance. Think about being on Mercury and the entire sky is blazing sun - and yet it survives.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

I mean, nothing on Mercury survives. At night it's -170 degrees Celsius and +430 degrees at day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Those are some mercurial tempera...tures

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

There was a time people thought Mercury would have some "twilight" acreage that was always at habitable temperatures. Then we learned that, while yes it is tidally locked with the Sun, it is locked in a 3:2 resonance so it does rotate with respect to the sun, and everywhere gets both scorched and frozen to uninhabitability.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

on Mercury and the entire sky is blazing sun

I've never thought about this and holy shit

[–] [email protected] 10 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

That's not the case though. Sure the sun would seem bigger on mercury but it's not gonna fill the entire sky.

Edit: According to NASA the sun would appear 3 times bigger and 7 times brighter on mercury.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 16 hours ago

It's very hard to convey the size of the sun in a photo. On earth, it isn't bigger than the moon. I don't think I've ever seen, in a real photo, just how massive the sun is. I absolutely dwarfs a planet, which is kind of chilling. I've never seen a photo that shows anything further away from the camera than a planet AND that much bigger.