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The Family Portrait of the Solar System taken by Voyager 1. The Family Portrait, or sometimes Portrait of the Planets, is an image of the Solar System acquired by Voyager 1 on February 14, 1990, from a distance of approximately 6 billion km (40 AU; 3.7 billion mi) from Earth. It features individual frames of six planets and a partial background ...
The Solar System Family Portrait is an image of many of the Solar System's planets and moons acquired by MESSENGER during November 2010 from approximately the orbit of Mercury. The mosaic is intended to be complementary to the Voyager 1 ' s Family Portrait acquired from the outer edge of the Solar System on February 14, 1990. [1]
Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of Earth taken on February 14, 1990, by the Voyager 1 space probe from an unprecedented distance of over 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles, 40.5 AU), as part of that day's Family Portrait series of images of the Solar System.
The Solar orbiter just produced the closest pictures ever taken of the Sun, revealing our parent star in stunning detail. This joint mission from NASA and the ESA launched on February 9 of this ...
Images show the Moon blocking out the Sun in a rare event that won’t be seen again for decades
Follow photos of the 2024 solar eclipse from the path of totality and beyond as people gather to watch the total solar eclipse live for the first time since 2017.
The Solar System remains in a relatively stable, slowly evolving state by following isolated, gravitationally bound orbits around the Sun. [28] Although the Solar System has been fairly stable for billions of years, it is technically chaotic, and may eventually be disrupted. There is a small chance that another star will pass through the Solar ...
Here are photos of the solar eclipse. Yurem Rodriquez watches as the moon partially covers the sun during a total solar eclipse, as seen from Eagle Pass, Texas, on Monday.