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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.I sometimes dislike breaking illusions. The camera that took that pic wasn't out there in space.
It was here on earth, perhaps at NASA, aimed at a computer screen whose pixels were being struck by electrons guided by electric fields in a TV-like device.
The reason?
The two most distant space vehicles, the Pioneers, were launched in the 1970s and recently reached our Sun's heliosphere.
They are but a tiny fraction of the distance to our galaxy's most distant region, let alone near NGC3432 in the constellation Leo.
There can be no human-designed cameras farther away, let alone functioning cameras.
In short, you're looking at something out of sci fi.
yvilletom
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Aug 8, 2019
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I don't see anywhere here saying it was taken out in space? I suppose Hubble could have taken it, and they enlarged it like they do most but I would have to go back and look. I DO know that it is not a artist rendition as I don't share anything that says that it is. I think the people here are well aware that things like this are not taken like a typical photograph.
The Pioneer spacecraft are most definitely NOT the most distant space vehicles. Both Voyagers are further out, and currently in third place is Pioneer 10. It's only a short matter of time before all of them fall behind the New Horizons spacecraft, which is traveling at a somewhat higher speed.
Whoops. You’re right. Voyager1 and 2, not Pioneer.
