Space Radar

Sun and Moon Look the Same Size

The Sun is about 400 times wider than the Moon and about 400 times farther away, so they look almost exactly the same size in the sky.

What is and is not to scale.

How this was made and sources

One HTML file: no libraries, no network requests. Every number below was read on the date shown, from the page named next to it.

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