Why do Saturn and Jupiter look so similar in size right now, despite Saturn being so much further away?

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I consider myself a fairly intelligent, college-educated individual, but lately, I’m seeing all these telescopic photos of the Jupiter/Saturn conjunction, and I’m confused as to how the two planets have close apparent sizes. How is this so, despite Saturn being millions of miles further away?

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Anonymous 0 Comments

Can you link one of these pictures where they’re about the same size? Because all the pictures I see doing a search shows Saturn considerably smaller than Jupiter, as you’d expect.

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