Lunar Image

Suzuya's image of the Moon: formed 4.51 billion years ago, and one of the easiest, and most beautiful, celestial bodies to observe from Earth.

Suzuya also pointed out a neat coincidence behind why solar eclipses look the way they do: the Moon's diameter (3,474.8 km) is almost 401 times smaller than the Sun's (1,392,700 km). But the Moon also sits about 389 times closer to Earth (384,399 km) than the Sun does (149,597,870.7 km). Those two ratios nearly cancel out, which is why the Moon and Sun appear to be almost exactly the same size in our sky.