The moon and Jupiter should be visible together with binoculars, which have a wider field of view, however. Jupiter's moon Titan is also larger than Mercury, but this is because of its puffed-out atmosphere.ĭespite the moon and Jupiter sharing a close approach tonight, the two will still be too widely separated to be seen together in the narrow field of view of a telescope. That makes it wider than the planet Mercury, which has a diameter 3,032 miles (4,879 km), around a third the size of Earth. The largest Jovian moon, Ganymede, is also the largest moon in the solar system with a diameter of 3,270 miles (5,268 km). Jupiter is so vast that it has moons that are larger than not only our moon but even a solar system planet. That means to stretch across the equator of Jupiter it would take at least 44 moons. Our planet is itself around four times as large as the moon, which has a diameter of around 2,200 miles (3,500 kilometers). Jupiter has a width of around 89,000 miles (143,000 km) making it 11 times the size of Earth. In terms of actual size, the moon is much smaller than Jupiter is, meaning if the two celestial bodies were at equal distances from Earth, the gas giant would easily rule the night sky over our planet, dominating the moon. This is a result of the fact the moon is much closer to Earth than the fifth planet from the sun, Jupiter. Clearly, the moon will outshine Jupiter in the night sky and dominates it in terms of size by quite a large margin. On Monday, the moon will have a magnitude of -12.3, while Jupiter will have a magnitude of -2.7 (lower and/or negative numbers indicate bright objects in the sky).
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