#24: Celestial Frights

While it’s easy for a megalophobe to view the stars at night as tiny dots within the sky, when confronted by pictures like the one below, it’s an entirely different story. Saturn is shown peaking around the moon, and if you weren’t already aware, the moon is 2,159.2 miles wide.

Saturn is much larger, at 74,898 miles at its equatorial diameter. Compared to earth, Saturn is nine times wider. Thankfully, it isn’t often that we are confronted with its size. You’d have to actively search out photos, and even then, you control how large the picture is. Wait, how does this work? Do megalophobes get uncomfortable looking at small images of large objects?