Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of planet Earth taken on February 14, 1990, by the Voyager 1 space probe from a record distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles, 40.5 AU), as part of that day's Family Portrait series of images of the Solar System.
What is the farthest picture taken in space?
What is the farthest observed object in space?
Farfarout now has an official designation: 2018 AG37. It's official: Farfarout is our solar system's most distant known object. The planetoid dubbed Farfarout was first detected in 2018, at an estimated distance of 140 astronomical units (AU) from the sun — farther away than any object had ever been observed.
Is Voyager 1 still transmitting?
Voyager 1 is the first spacecraft to reach interstellar space. It originally launched (along with its twin, Voyager 2) in 1977 to explore the outer planets in our solar system. However, it has remained operational long past expectations and continues to send information about its journeys back to Earth.
How long would it take to travel 13.3 billion light-years?
To travel 13.3 billion light years from Earth, Voyager 1 would then take 228,900 years to do so.
How far can the Hubble telescope see?
The farthest that Hubble has seen so far is about 10-15 billion light-years away. The farthest area looked at is called the Hubble Deep Field.
Will Voyager 1 come back to Earth?
The Voyagers will never return to Earth. However 2025 is the year NASA expect to lose contact with them due to insufficient power to transmit a usable radio signal.
Is Voyager 1 coming back to Earth?
The probe is well into the fourth decade of its mission, and it hasn't come near a planet since it flew past Saturn in 1980. But even as it drifts farther and farther from a dimming sun, it's still sending information back to Earth, as scientists recently reported in The Astrophysical Journal.
What is the farthest thing from Earth?
| MACS0647-JD | |
|---|---|
| Distance | 13,300,000,000 ly (4.077798537×109 pc) (light-travel time) 32,000,000,000 ly (9.811244601×109 pc) (comoving distance) |
| Group or cluster | MACS J0647+7015 |
| Characteristics | |
| Type | dwarf |
Is the space infinite?
The observable universe is finite in that it hasn't existed forever. It extends 46 billion light years in every direction from us. (While our universe is 13.8 billion years old, the observable universe reaches further since the universe is expanding).