Ya know whats really an eye opener...Is one can look through an extremely powerful telescope at the stars, stars much larger than our sun, and they still only appears as tiny points of light, because of the great distances. Yet when this tiny planet turns revealing our star on the eastern horizon.....Man you know your close to that star....There ain't no mistaking it....lol
And looking at the moon at night, our star is generating so much light, you tell exactly where our star is even when it's dark, just by looking at the lunar surface.
I know it sounds really weird, but being this close to a star, just blows me away. lol...
As long as we're on the subject, what wigs me out is that the darkness of space that we see at night is filled with sunlight. It is streaming away from us of course, but all the same, it is invisible.