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> Because Earth moves around the sun faster than Voyager 1 is traveling from Earth, the distance between Earth and the spacecraft actually decreases at certain times of the year.

So obvious yet so mind blowing.

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We really are on a fragile blue ball doing loop-de-loops through space!

Wiggly loop-de-loops.

If you shrunk the sun down to the size of a ping-pong ball, earth would be a poppy seed orbiting ten meters away. Pluto would be 100m away. The Voyagers would be 300m away.

The nearest star, Proxima Centauri, would be 500 miles away.

Proxima Centauri is so far away that's depressing...

the proxima is almost a joke in the name.

Well, there are three stars in the alpha centauri system. Proxima is the most proximate

It is, but it's almost marginal:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Centauri#/media/File:Rel...

> earth would be a poppy seed orbiting ten meters away

Correction: that should have been 10 feet (3 m). The other numbers are (more or less) correct.

Needs some metriculation /s

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