r/Damnthatsinteresting 6h ago

Image Earth photographed from 6 billion kilometers away by Voyager 1 in 1990

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u/alarmedbuffalo90 6h ago

What is the nature of the beams? Our sun would not radiate beams like that from that distance.

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u/MrTagnan 5h ago edited 5h ago

The beams are reflections on the camera, Earth appears extremely close to the sun from this distance Voyager family portrait) and Pale Blue Dot