From Pale Blue Dot to Bright Red Stars

Astrophotography has come a long way to humble us

Credit: NASA, ESA

On a lovely February day in 1990, Voyager 1, which would later become the first spacecraft to cross the heliosphere, took a picture of the Earth from a staggering distance of 6 billion kilometers.

Carl Sagan called the Earth a pale blue dot, and he left a message to commemorate this…