Farthest Picture Of Earth Ever Taken
The dot visible is our planet. This photo was taken by Voyager 1 which is on a journey to explore the interstellar space. It is currently at a distance of 155.5 AU (23.2 billion km) away from Earth.
Yet it is said for the probe to take another 30,000 years to cross the Oort cloud which is the total spanning area of our solar system.
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