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That beautiful blue star is our home:

Earth is 898 million miles away from the Cassini spacecraft and according to NASA this is only the third time that Earth has ever been photographed from the outer solar system.

“The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.” ― Carl Sagan

~ by Fionnlagh on August 11, 2013.

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Tags: Cassini spacecraft was at a distance of approximately 753000 miles (1.212 million kilometers) from Saturn and approximately 898.414 million miles (1.445858 billion kilometers) from Earth, Earth From Space - Full ISS Time-Lapse Edit [time-lapse], green and blue spectral filters were combined to create this natural color view, Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute, Images taken using red, Saturn's rings and our planet Earth and its moon in the same frame