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This is what our home looks like from 6 billion kilometres away.

This is the famous Pale Blue Dot, taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft on Valentine's Day, 1990, from a distance of about 6 billion km. Read more: science.nasa.gov/mission/voya... Image credit: Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

9/9/26, 4:55 pm1 repost49 likes

bjkeefe

@bjkeefe.bsky.social

9 Sept

To think about it is to marvel. 36 years ago. And now Voyager 1 is an additional 10 billion km away. And then to realize not yet one light-day away. Stars are far. science.nasa.gov/mission/voya...

science.nasa.govWhere Are Voyager 1 and 2 Now? - NASA ScienceBoth Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 have reached "interstellar space" and each continue their unique journey deeper into the cosmos.

Compton Scatterbrained

@comptonscatter.bsky.social

12 Sept

We're so awful at big numbers, large sizes and deep time :(