The universe as you’ve never seen it before: Photographer creates incredible pictures

[Coyotl]

The universe as you’ve never seen it before: Photographer creates incredible pictures of what it would look like if planets were closer

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[MichiganVote]

1. I wonder if people would recognize the science of the world more if Saturn were this close.

[Pholus]

2. Probably. Tidal forces would be nasty though. At some height in the atmosphere,

you would probably hit the point where gravity is breakeven and so you'd float over to Saturn.

[MichiganVote]

7. Really. Interesting. I was thinking that the pic sort of cleans up the possibility of the

Saturn rings messing with the earth's atmosphere, dropping stuff on earth, that sort of thing. And I wondered what would happen to our moon.

[tclambert]

8. The Earth would orbit Saturn, and probably become tide-locked (the same side always faces Saturn).

Kinda like the Moon is tide-locked.

In the photo where Venus replaces the Moon, you would get Venus and the Earth orbiting a common middle point, probably both tide-locked, and Venus shining so bright that you could read by it at night, if you were on the side of the Earth that could see Venus.

With Jupiter at the distance of the Moon, the radiation around Jupiter might fry us, and the tidal forces might cause as much volcanism as on Io.

[MichiganVote]

9. Ok, so maybe we'll just leave things as is. :) No make overs.

[JayhawkSD]

10. Actually...

"you would get Venus and the Earth orbiting a common middle point"

In actual point of fact, Earth and the Moon do currently orbit around a common central point. That point is much closer to the center of Earth than the Moon's center, but the Moon does move the Earth slightly.

More mind bogglingly, Earth and the Sun orbit around a common center point. That center is probably well within the Sun, but...

[tclambert]

12. Right. That's one way they detect exoplanets, by the wobble of the star around that point.

Venus and Earth are so close in size, that point would be very close to right in the middle between them. A skosh closer to the Earth.

[Autumn Colors]

3. Oh nooooo

Time to build the protective magic teepee....

[Coyotl]

4. I'd like to see photos of planets from the distance of their own moons, moon views.

They exist, so needed would be sorting and labeling them.

[DreamGypsy]

5. This photo provides a good sense of what the photos would look like ...

...viewing Jupiter from Io.

[DreamGypsy]

6. Those are beautiful photo creations. Two facts to remember about the distance to the moon...

The mean distance to the moon is 238,600.774 miles.

Fact 1: If you took all the passenger vehicles in the United States (254.5 million) and placed them bumper to bumper, they would stretch over twice the distance to the moon.

Fact 2: If you did that, some idiot at the back in a BMW would pull out and try to pass.

[savebigbird]

11. Scary

[Judi Lynn]

13. What a great idea! Thank you. n/t