The Universe, to Scale

A composite image shows the earth and its moon. The Earth is roughly four times the size of the moon.
NASA

The Earth and the Moon
Taken by the Voyager spacecraft in 1977, this photograph captures our planet and its moon in one frame. The relative size of the Earth to the moon is 4 to 1.

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