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pale blue dot

name

Etymology

Referring to the Earth's appearance from space; Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of Earth taken in 1990 by the Voyager 1 spacecraft from a record distance of about 6 billion kilometers and named by American astrophysicist, cosmologist and author Carl Sagan.

Definitions

  1. The planet Earth.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA