If Only

The sky is as vast as it is diverse. When we gaze up into the night sky, we can see so many types of natural objects: stars, planets, meteors, comets, etc. But as diverse as they are, they have one thing in common--they're all round. From our perspective, aside from the Sun and moon, they're innocuous points of light.

It may seem obvious, but it's true. The closest non-round celestial "body" of course is Saturn's famous rings. It should be noted, though, that they are not actually solid rings but lots and lots of small particles of mostly ice and dust (which themselves are in fact round).

The main reason Earth doesn't have rings simply because it isn't big enough. Saturn, a gas giant, has relatively strong gravitational forces, which pulls the ring's particles in. (Fun fact: Jupiter also has rings--invisible rings!)

But what if Earth did have rings? What would it look like to us? Answer: Awesome.