Next year in November, the Voyager 1 spacecraft will be ONE full light day away from the Earth!'nLaunched in 1977, it took almost 50 Earth years to reach "just" distance of 1 light day'nSpace is so big and we are so tiny
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Next year in November, the Voyager 1 spacecraft will be ONE full light day away from the Earth!
Launched in 1977, it took almost 50 Earth years to reach "just" distance of 1 light day
Space is so big and we are so tiny
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Next year in November, the Voyager 1 spacecraft will be ONE full light day away from the Earth!
Launched in 1977, it took almost 50 Earth years to reach "just" distance of 1 light day
Space is so big and we are so tiny
@stux It's amazing how much distance there is between objects in space. I have to think of it in graduated steps: between us and the other planets, between our solar system and other stars, between our solar system and other galaxies. It's amazing how long it takes for our galaxy to make a single rotation.
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Next year in November, the Voyager 1 spacecraft will be ONE full light day away from the Earth!
Launched in 1977, it took almost 50 Earth years to reach "just" distance of 1 light day
Space is so big and we are so tiny
@stux Also: Voyager WOOOSH.
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Next year in November, the Voyager 1 spacecraft will be ONE full light day away from the Earth!
Launched in 1977, it took almost 50 Earth years to reach "just" distance of 1 light day
Space is so big and we are so tiny
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@stux It's amazing how much distance there is between objects in space. I have to think of it in graduated steps: between us and the other planets, between our solar system and other stars, between our solar system and other galaxies. It's amazing how long it takes for our galaxy to make a single rotation.
Not to mention (and this is what always stops me in my tracks) we aren't at a standstill...all moving along, dragged behind a sun that is on it's own spiraling path, in an arm of a galaxy that is also moving through space.
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Not to mention (and this is what always stops me in my tracks) we aren't at a standstill...all moving along, dragged behind a sun that is on it's own spiraling path, in an arm of a galaxy that is also moving through space.
@Sfwmson @kimlockhartga Awesome huh!
Nothing is "still"
It was such a revelation for me that the speed of light in a vacuum is one of the few constants we have 
