Voyager 1 spacecraft's road to interstellar space: A photo timelineįollow Chelsea Gohd on Twitter.Voyager 1's historic flyby of Jupiter in photos.Photos from NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 probes. The cast of narrators who lent their voices to this video includes Ryan MacDonald, Jack Madden, Thea Kozakis, Lara Sky Kaltenegger, Mark Sarvary, Zifan Lin, Maryame El Moutamid, Andrew Ridden-Harper, Nikole Lewis, Jake Turner, Ishan Mishra, Zoe Ponterio, Carl Sagan Institute director Lisa Kaltenegger and Ann Druyan, a science communicator who co-wrote "Cosmos" with Sagan and whom she married in 1981. "We can now peer into the atmospheres of these new worlds, continuing our quest to find life in the universe." "With more than 4,000 exoplanets detected to date, we have begun observing the first pale dots around other stars," the video says. The video goes on to highlight how, following this groundbreaking photo, our species has pushed space exploration forward in incredible, innovative ways. (Image credit: Carl Sagan Institute: Pale Blue Dots and Beyond) The image inspired the title of scientist Carl Sagan's book, 'Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space,' in which he wrote: 'Look again at that dot. 14, 1990, by NASA’s Voyager 1 at a distance of 3.7 billion miles (6 billion kilometers) from the Sun. The institute is dedicated to advancing the search for life in the universe. The Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of Earth taken Feb. The Institute for Pale Blue Dots at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York,was renamed the Carl Sagan Institute: Pale Blue Dots and Beyond in a ceremony on May 9, 2015.
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