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Keep scrolling. Every picture you have seen of the solar system squeezed this emptiness out.

Mercury is ahead, where sunlight is almost seven times stronger than on Earth.

Still nothing. You have crossed ۱۶٫۸ میلیون km since عطارد.

The sunlight passing you now left the Sun ۵ دقیقه ۵ ثانیه ago.

Earth is ahead. Watch how small home turns out to be.

مارس is still ۵۸٫۸ میلیون km ahead.

A radio message from Earth takes between 3 and 22 minutes to reach Mars, depending on where the two planets are.

You could line up ۴٬۶۱۱ Earths side by side in the space you have crossed since زمین.

You are 14% of the way from مارس to سرس.

Still nothing. You have crossed ۵۳٫۱ میلیون km since مارس.

The sunlight passing you now left the Sun ۱۷ دقیقه ۶ ثانیه ago.

سرس is still ۷۹٫۶ میلیون km ahead.

You are inside the asteroid belt. Did you hit anything? On average the asteroids are about a million kilometres apart.

You could line up ۱۲٬۴۹۷ Earths side by side in the space you have crossed since مارس.

You are 17% of the way from سرس to مشتری.

Still nothing. You have crossed ۱۲۲ میلیون km since سرس.

The sunlight passing you now left the Sun ۳۳ دقیقه ۸ ثانیه ago.

مشتری is still ۱۲۲ میلیون km ahead.

You could line up ۲۳٬۸۴۶ Earths side by side in the space you have crossed since سرس.

You are 10% of the way from مشتری to زحل.

Still nothing. You have crossed ۱۳۰ میلیون km since مشتری.

The sunlight passing you now left the Sun ۵۴ دقیقه ۵ ثانیه ago.

زحل is still ۳۸۹ میلیون km ahead.

Voyager 1 took about 20 months to fly from Jupiter to Saturn.

You could line up ۳۰٬۵۲۹ Earths side by side in the space you have crossed since مشتری.

You are 70% of the way from مشتری to زحل.

Still nothing. You have crossed ۵۱۹ میلیون km since مشتری.

The sunlight passing you now left the Sun ۱ ساعت ۱۶ دقیقه ago.

اورانوس is still ۱٫۳۱ میلیارد km ahead.

You could line up ۲۰٬۶۰۵ Earths side by side in the space you have crossed since زحل.

You are 27% of the way from زحل to اورانوس.

Still nothing. You have crossed ۵۲۵ میلیون km since زحل.

Uranus orbits twice as far from the Sun as Saturn. The farther out you go, the emptier it gets.

The sunlight passing you now left the Sun ۲ ساعت ۳ دقیقه ago.

اورانوس is still ۵۲۵ میلیون km ahead.

You could line up ۸۲٬۴۱۸ Earths side by side in the space you have crossed since زحل.

You are 82% of the way from زحل to اورانوس.

Still nothing. You have crossed ۱٫۳۱ میلیارد km since زحل.

The sunlight passing you now left the Sun ۲ ساعت ۴۸ دقیقه ago.

نپتون is still ۱٫۳۳ میلیارد km ahead.

You could line up ۳۴٬۸۴۰ Earths side by side in the space you have crossed since اورانوس.

You are 36% of the way from اورانوس to نپتون.

Still nothing. You have crossed ۷۴۰ میلیون km since اورانوس.

Voyager 2 needed about three and a half years to cross this gap, from Uranus in 1986 to Neptune in 1989.

The sunlight passing you now left the Sun ۳ ساعت ۳۷ دقیقه ago.

نپتون is still ۴۴۴ میلیون km ahead.

You could line up ۱۰۴٬۵۱۹ Earths side by side in the space you have crossed since اورانوس.

You are 91% of the way from اورانوس to نپتون.

Still nothing. You have crossed ۱۲۹ میلیون km since نپتون.

The sunlight passing you now left the Sun ۴ ساعت ۲۴ دقیقه ago.

The Kuiper belt: a ring of icy worlds so spread out that after Pluto, New Horizons flew close to just one of them.

پلوتو is still ۹۰۶ میلیون km ahead.

You could line up ۵۰٬۷۹۸ Earths side by side in the space you have crossed since نپتون.

You are 55% of the way from نپتون to پلوتو.

Still nothing. You have crossed ۹۰۶ میلیون km since نپتون.

New Horizons, one of the fastest spacecraft ever launched, took nine and a half years to reach Pluto. Sunlight gets to Pluto's average distance in about five and a half hours.

The sunlight passing you now left the Sun ۵ ساعت ۱۵ دقیقه ago.

پلوتو is still ۱۲۹ میلیون km ahead.