I just looked up Voyager 1's current position for a talk and saw something wild: https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status/

The distance between Earth and Voyager 1 is actually *decreasing* right now (even though the distance between Voyager 1 and the Sun is increasing). A website bug?

Nope! Earth moves really fast around the Sun. Right now we're moving faster toward Voyager 1 than it's flying away from us

Earth orbits at 30 km/s around the Sun, Voyager is going "only" 17 km/s. I love orbital dynamics!

Voyager - Mission Status

@sundogplanets If you want to look at something very cool, assume earth is your still point (immobile, etc) and then look at the orbital paths of every thing orbiting earth, and voyager's orbital path.

It's not particularly 'useful' to look at the solar system that way, but it is interesting (and gives cool orbital mechanic velocities that help you get an intuitive grasp of launch windows from earth!).

Also I love that we can just 'decide' that everything orbits earth, and be Right*.