A final "gee-whiz" fact you can reveal to your friends is that what you are seeing in Tuesday’s sky is an illusion of perspective. The moon and Saturn are nowhere near each other in space. The moon will be 222,900 miles (358,500 km) from Earth as you view it, while Saturn will fall more than 3,700 times farther away at 827 million miles (1.331 billion km) from your vantage point.