• fishos@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    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.

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

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      on Mercury and the entire sky is blazing sun

      I’ve never thought about this and holy shit

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        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.