• Skua@kbin.earth
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    7 days ago

    It’s also Pale Blue Dot day! For those that haven’t seen it before, it’s a photo of Earth taken on the 14th of February 1990 from well beyond the orbit of Neptune. Earth is that single blue pixel.

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      6 days ago

      Wow. Puts into perspective how big space is. “Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.” - Dogulas Adams.