<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/294d790d-bb78-4d76-909a-15e3d4bb683f/2A4F3287-BF1C-43EA-9AB3-310E3E23DAEF/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.rc-astro.com/photo/id1154.html" href="http://www.rc-astro.com/photo/id1154.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.rc-astro.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.rc-astro.com/photo/id1154.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.rc-astro.com/img/95B670AD-6DB9-4241-940C-4E0D01CA6E68" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.rc-astro.com/photo/id1154.html"><P>In many ways, these two objects couldn't be more different. The sun is a seething ball of gas, powered by nuclear reactions in a central core with a temperature of over 10 million degrees Kelvin. Its appearance changes day by day and even minute by minute as the gas near the surface is churned by the intense heat within. The moon is comparatively frigid and static. The same side of it always faces us, and its appearance is virtually unchanging except for the phases it displays as it is lit up by the sun from different angles.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.rc-astro.com/photo/id1154.html">As different as they are, from our perspective here on Earth, there is one striking similarity. Even though the diameter of the sun is about 400 times that of the moon, and it out-masses the moon by about 27 million times, they are both approximately the same apparent size in our sky, as pictured here.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2A4F3287-BF1C-43EA-9AB3-310E3E23DAEF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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