Spaceflight 🚀Mar 6

RE: https://social.heise.de/@heiseonlineenglish/116184066317580410

Previously available catalogs only covered comparatively nearby #galaxies 🌌 completely, with large gaps existing from a distance of 300 million light-years onwards

#Astronomy

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#Earth 🌏 is 1.44 billion kilometers away in this image, the "Pale Blue Dot" picture was acquired from a distance of about 6 billion km https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-51491471

Picture : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Earth-Moon_system_as_seen_from_Saturn_(PIA17171).jpg

#NASA #Cassini #Saturn

Mar 6 at 10:09pmWeb
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@spaceflight For the background of this photo: https://ciclops.org/view/7696/The-Day-the-Earth-Smiled-Sneak-Preview.html

#saturn #cassini

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@derickr seems to be the identical text as in the image description (linked above)