this of course is our beautiful sun and of course you get to see this every
single day all right so it's for the next five or six billion years or so but
have you ever wondered what it may actually look like from different
planets in our solar system let's find out in this video and welcome to what
the math
and so here I was browsing the Internet and when I found an article from no
other than Huffington Post I never really read that newspaper but they had
an article that basically talked about the possibility of looking at our Sun
from various planets and there was actually an artist I mentioned by the
name of Ron Miller whose illustrations I'm going to be showing you in this
video because they're actually pretty beautiful but yeah so he designed these
illustrations using some sort of a 3d graphics program and he kind of imagined
what it would might look like if you look at our Sun from various objects in
our solar system starting of course with mercury so let's find out what would
this beautiful object be like from Mercury and of course being the closest
object to our Sun it is going to be very very bright and you're about to see what
this is so this is what the Sun is like from Mercury now this may not seem very
different from what it's like on earth when we get to actually go on earth but
let's land first you can actually see what it's like on the actual surface and
so here we are standing on the surface of mercury looking into the sky and
seeing is very very bright object and this is actually what a real niller
imagine it as as well in his particular image so you kind of see doesn't really
look the same but at the same time we don't really know if any of these are as
realistic as we really are in real life because in real life it might be
completely different because mercury does have a very very very very very
thin atmosphere there might be a little bit of refraction that we don't really
see here and because Sun is so close to us it might be even more blindingly
bright than it currently is right here it might actually be something like this
and my apologies for making your eyes hurt right now anyway let's go to the
next planet Venus and so let's actually look at the picture of Venus according
to Ron Miller first and obviously it looks a lot more beautiful than I think
we'll be able to simulate but this is what we have look at the beautiful
Corona around Venus formed by this very thick atmosphere that it has on a
surface all right so Sun from the surface of Venus
is going to look this way and this is essentially surface of Venus in this
game not particularly exciting but the reason why you don't really see the Sun
is because it's actually diffracted by the extremely thick atmosphere it is
essentially everywhere and nowhere the atmosphere is very very very thick on
top of that 90% of sunlight actually reflects from the upper atmosphere of
Venus and so you only get to actually see sunlight I don't really know where
the Sun is actually and there it is it was right above us
you want to get to see sunlight if you are essentially in the upper atmosphere
but anywhere below it will be a kind of a very interesting appearance something
that is possibly very similar to this now we're going to skip earth and go
directly to Mars and as you can probably imagine on Mars Sun doesn't really look
that different from what it would be on earth the only difference of course is
that the atmosphere here is a little bit thinner and so the actual sunlight
penetrates Mars much easier so it is a little bit brighter and I'm going to
actually show you what it looks like when it's a little bit closer to the
horizon and here we go so this is what the Sun would look like very close to
the horizon of Mars now you still kind of actually see a lot of the stars even
when it's you know brightly lit by the Sun because obviously there is just not
enough atmosphere to refract sunlight but it is there so there is obviously a
little bit of atmosphere that's showing which is why we kind of see this kind of
a atmospheric like effect here and let's go through this again and also look at
the picture from Ron Miller as well and nighttime
and when it comes to Jupiter instead of actually looking at the Sun from Jupiter
which would be kind of difficult because it is a gas giant we instead are going
to go to its moon Europa which is a moon that we are very very interested in the
moon that possibly has a liquid ocean underneath very very likely actually
almost on a percent sure and where there is a liquid ocean there is maybe life
and now if we look into the skies well first of all we actually see another
moon of Jupiter which is IO but we also will see the Sun now here because there
is actually very very little in terms of atmosphere almost not actually it will
be very bright now I'm going to wait until it gets closer to the horizon
again because I want to actually show you what it looks like when it's very
very close to the horizon and will actually have Jupiter in the background
as well so here it is actually a lot less bright and it would be from from
Earth because when it comes to brightness it is actually inversely
proportional to the distance but at the same time it's it has to be in a sense
squared what it means is that for example if an object is five meters away
from you and is brightness of one then another object similar object that is
twice as far away it will be four times less bright so in other words because
Jupiter is approximately five astronomical units away from the Sun
actually a little bit more than that it is about 25 the Sun is about 25 times
less bright here so it is not as bright as you would think and you can even see
the beautiful tiny rings of Jupiter orbiting around it and let's wait for
the night and also look at the representation of this from the artist
as well
you
now rod Miller's representation of Saturn is actually very very beautiful I
don't think I can do a good job here but I'm going to try he's actually taking a
look at it from Saturn and this is kind of what his picture looks like now this
is what mine looks like I guess kind of similar not really his is more beautiful
but this is essentially the Sun as it is in space engine or I guess it would be
in real life in a sense and this is what it looks like from Saturn so still quite
bright still quite big but obviously not as bright as it is on earth and in terms
of brightness is about I don't know 80 ish times less bright less luminous than
it is from Earth but still very very beautiful and does create quite a lot of
really awesome effects including the light effects on this beautiful planet
and now we're standing on Ariel which is one of the moons of Uranus which you see
in the background right there and we're approaching or I guess the Sun is
approaching the horizon once again it is now a lot farther away than it was
before and obviously it's a lot less dim as
well but still provides just enough Sun way to create a kind of an interesting
effect here now Ariel as you can see is not very very big it's actually a
relatively small object it's only terms of diameter it's only about a thousand
kilometers but the Sun here creates just enough light or provides just enough
light for it to be quite easily seen with a telescope and there is the Sun
and there is Neptune and this is what it looks like now take a look at the same
picture from Ron Miller
alright moving on and the next object is of course Neptune and here we're going
to go to the moon known as Triton now interest no II Triton actually has a bit
of an atmosphere so there's a bit of an atmospheric effect and I can actually
show you the effect a little bit better if I go a little bit higher first and
you can might even see the cloud to forget lucky maybe not maybe not Klaus
but anyway so there is the Sun there was a cloud right there hey there is Neptune
and this is what it may look like from Triton now Triton is a relatively
interesting satellite because it actually spins in a completely opposite
direction from everything else in this in this particular system which is why
we think it was captured by Neptune a long time ago so it's technically not
from here and one day it's going to collapse and smack into Neptune but not
anytime soon nevertheless it's a very beautiful looking moon and the Sun here
creates a very beautiful effect but now take a look at the same effects and the
same picture by Ron Miller
and the last but not least and technically not a planet but of course
still a planet in my heart is of course Pluto and it's beautiful satellite
Charon now I'm going to try to recreate the
same thing that you see on a screen right now and this is essentially what
his beautiful photo looks like and this is what mine is going to be
now remember we now know that Pluto does have a very instant atmosphere as well
and which is why there is a bit of an atmospheric effect here and there is our
beautiful Sun still quite right still I guess a little bit warm not as warm as
you would expect it to be on earth of course but warm nevertheless and there
on the horizon you also see Sharon which of course doesn't look as beautiful as
in the picture by Ron Miller but and this is the best we can do in this game
and there is the Sun and let's try to position them so we can actually see
both and wait for the sunset and anyway that's all I wanted to do in this video
hopefully now you know a little bit more about how things look in our solar
system from a certain location and specifically here we're talking about
the Sun of course thank you for watching and if you haven't subscribed yet don't
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the next video it's now nighttime we need to escape and go home to our planet
Earth game you later and as always bye bye and there is the atmospheric layer
that you're going to see such a beautiful dwarf planet although
technically still a planet in my heart