Hill Spheres and apparent radii

Suppose you are a passenger in a spaceship, you look outside, and you notice that, from your vantage point, the Sun and the Earth appear to be almost exactly the same size. Question: Is it possible that you are currently in orbit around the Earth? Suppose instead that it’s the Earth and Moon that appear the……

Comments in WMF files

Windows Metafile (WMF) is a vector graphics format native to Microsoft Windows 3.x. It was succeeded by Enhanced Metafile (EMF) in 32-bit versions of Windows, but it seems to have remained in use, alongside EMF, long after Windows 3.x became obsolete. It was often embedded inside other file formats, such as PowerPoint (.ppt) or Write……