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Robert “The Bobby Yaga” McNees

The frame containing Earth shows a dramatic optical artifact because we are near the Sun in the camera's field of view.

That's the Pale Blue Dot. Suspended in a sunbeam, captured from a distance of 40 AU by a probe out on the edge of darkness.

After that, mission scientists turned off Voyager 1's cameras to save power.

Image: NASA/JPL