Although the “Pale Blue Dot” may have looked static, in 1990, the planet, of course, was as alive and bustling as ever.

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The "Pale Blue Dot," a photo of our home planet taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft on Feb. 14, 1990, when it was almost 4 billion miles (6.4 billion kilometers) from Earth.© NASA/JPL-Caltech ...

Mon., Feb. 10, 2025 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.

The Pale Blue Dot has also changed, but humanity might not have assimilated its lessons quite yet. "It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience.

Here’s how it works. The "Pale Blue Dot," a photo of our home planet taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft on Feb. 14, 1990, when it was almost 4 billion miles (6.4 billion kilometers) from Earth.