Among other things, Mike Sobers saw fit to write:

> FYI - I put this together for an intro Astronautics class to help students
> visualize the scale of the planets with respect to each other.

Maybe you could try texturing the gas giants more like... gas giants, i.e.,
use a less stony finish, maybe with some dense scattering media... I guess
that would't be  too realistic at this scale, but the column isn't exactly
realistic anyway ;) How about (a portion of) the Sun showing somewhere?

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light_source{9+9*x,1}camera{orthographic look_at(1-y)/4angle 30location
9/4-z*4}light_source{-9*z,1}union{box{.9-z.1+x clipped_by{plane{2+y-4*x
0}}}box{z-y-.1.1+z}box{-.1.1+x}box{.1z-.1}pigment{rgb<.8.2,1>}}//Jellby

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