woah, the sun is bigger than the earth, but it looks smaller! how is that?

Yeah, and people who are 100 meters from you look TINY, as if you could hold them in your hand! WHERE DO THESE TINY PEOPLE COME FROM??????

Grow a brain, Biraj.

The sun is about 93 million miles from your eyes. The earth is about 5-6 feet from them.

Hold a sheet of paper at arms length. It looks bigger than the houses two blocks away! How is that???

Inferior planets (Mercury and Venus) are visible, Mercury can be tricky to spot, because it is always so very close to the sun. Venus is usually close to the sun in the sky too, but is much more visible, in fact, head outside tonight, just after sunset. Look west. You can see two amazingly bright "Stars" very close together. (Neither of them are stars, both are planets) not far from the cresent moon. Venus is the Brighter one, Jupiter is the fainter one (although, Jupiter is still brighter than all the stars in the sky, it does not compare in magnitude to Venus).

The Sun appears smaller because it's average distance from us is about 93 million miles.

Currently you actually can see Venus in the early evenings around and a little after sunset. It's the bright looking "star" in the southwestern part of the sky. And very close to it for the next few days is another dimmer point of light. That is Jupiter.

The Moon (Web site). <http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanet...

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It's this thing called perspective, things farther away look smaller then what they are and the sun is pretty damn far away, thank god because it's hot enough as it is. Also the planets rotate around the sun and are not a perfect line leading to the sun so you cant always see them.

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We are so far away from other planets that they are only visible to the naked eye when we're in the dark (at night) and they're being lit from the sun.

its all relative to your perspective. if u had a pebble and were 5 light years away from earth the pebble would be much bigger than earth looked. as for the other planets... they are not nearly as bright as any of the other bodies in our sky. your eyes just cannot adjust

see It is bacause of it is so far away from the earth it is 1.49 * 10 raise to 8 m away. therefore it makes a very small angle with our eyes If tried to increase it we will get the bigger size of it as usually happens in the telesocpoes.telescopes magnify the true image but our eye can't there it looks like small.........

Because the distance between you and the Sun is very long.

The other planets are not invisible -it is out of focus

Yeah nice troll job. I wonder how small your head would look from a distance, pretty damn tiny I can imagine.