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Pale Blue Dot: The iconic Valentine's Day photo of Earth turns 35 today — and you're probably in it

On Valentine's Day 1990, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft snapped what would become one of the most iconic images ever taken: a view of Earth from 3.7 billion miles (6 billion kilometers) away. In that ...
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Column: Pale blue dot

One of my favorite observers of life on this earth is the late Carl Sagan. He was an astronomer, planetary scientist, astrophysicist, author, and science communicator. In one of my leadership lectures ...
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NASA’s First Female Goddard Chief Sworn In On Carl Sagan’s "Pale Blue Dot"

Katy has a BA in Humanities and Philosophy, with over 20 years of experience in online and print publishing. She was named the Association of British Science Writers' Editor of the Year in 2023. Katy ...
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New Nasa director swears oath on Carl Sagan’s ‘Pale Blue Dot’ instead of Bible

A top newly appointed Nasa official has taken an unconventional oath to assume charge of her duties. Makenzie Lystrup, who became the first woman in Nasa’s history to be appointed the director of ...
The Spokesman-Review

The Pale Blue Dot: Earth from 3.7 billion miles away

See that little dot up there, in the upper right of that photo? That’s the planet Earth, as photographed from about 3.7 billion miles away 35 years ago Friday, on Feb. 14, 1990. “That’s home,” famed ...
Times of San Diego

Opinion: In 2025, Let’s Embrace What Jimmy Carter and Carl Sagan Understood About Our Earth

The famous “Pale Blue Dot” is a photograph of Earth taken Feb. 14, 1990, by Voyager 1 at a distance of 3.7 billion miles. (Courtesy of NASA) The famed astrophysicist Carl Sagan and former President ...
SpaceRef

New NASA Goddard Director Sworn In With Sagan’s “Pale Blue Dot”

You might want to take a closer look of this photo of Dr. Makenzie Lystrup as she is sworn in as the new director of Goddard Space Flight Center. Look closely at where Dr. Lystrup’s left hand is. It ...
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Need Some Perspective? Watch Carl Sagan's 'Pale Blue Dot'

On a day where we as a nation will make a very important collective decision, Carl Sagan's speech serves to help remind us of our place in the... So, it's Election Day here in the United States. Every ...
The Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

LONG LOOK | OPINION: Mirror in the Sky — Kae Barron’s “Pale Blue Dot” Portal

Arkansas artist Kae Barron sets the Earth itself into a forest clearing — an impossible reflection drawn from Voyager’s “Pale ...
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Jeep® Brand Launches 'Pale Blue Dot' Video, Featuring the Words of Carl Sagan, to Launch the New Jeep Wrangler 4xe

The Jeep® brand and Ann Druyan, the widow and collaborator of Carl Sagan, have joined together to create the 90-second video "Pale Blue Dot," which launches the new Jeep Wrangler 4xe and puts ...
American Songwriter

Dreamshade Takes a Page from Author Carl Sagan’s Book ‘A Pale Blue Dot’ For New Album

Nearly thirty years ago author and astronomer Carl Sagan captured the earth in a way no one had before. The space photograph captured earth light-years away and probed an idea of unity of mankind for ...