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Astronaut

View width 4 m wide
Light crosses it inlight 13 ns

Image credits

Every picture is a real image from a space agency or observatory, cropped and resized for this page. The Milky Way is the one exception: no spacecraft has left our galaxy, so it is an illustration built from survey data. Positions of the planets in their orbits and the directions on the page are simplified; sizes and distances are to scale.