earth is possibly one of the very few planets possibly in the whole universe that has a moon just slightly smaller than its star when viewed from the surface. if the moon was smaller or bigger or closer or further away we could not have total eclipses. it is a coincidence of incredible cosmic scale - ThreadSky

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ithayla.bsky.social • 168 days ago

earth is possibly one of the very few planets possibly in the whole universe that has a moon just slightly smaller than its star when viewed from the surface. if the moon was smaller or bigger or closer or further away we could not have total eclipses. it is a coincidence of incredible cosmic scale

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ianzang.bsky.social•168 days ago

I mean, we would get eclipses if it were bigger, but it's neat that it overlaps -just- enough so we can see the entire corona.

Subnautica does a cool thing with its planets where you see an eclipse with a much larger body. Scared the heck out of me the first time it happened, haha.