Nhazi

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 16.8M km since Mercury.

The sunlight passing you now left the Sun 5 min 5 s ago.

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

_Nhazi is still 58.8M 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 4,611 Earths side by side in the space you have crossed since Earth.

You are 14% of the way from _Nhazi to Ceres.

Still nothing. You have crossed 53.1M km since _Nhazi.

The sunlight passing you now left the Sun 17 min 6 s ago.

Ceres is still 79.6M 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 12,497 Earths side by side in the space you have crossed since _Nhazi.

You are 17% of the way from Ceres to Jupiter.

Still nothing. You have crossed 122M km since Ceres.

The sunlight passing you now left the Sun 33 min 8 s ago.

Jupiter is still 122M km ahead.

You could line up 23,846 Earths side by side in the space you have crossed since Ceres.

You are 10% of the way from Jupiter to Satọ́ntị.

Still nothing. You have crossed 130M km since Jupiter.

The sunlight passing you now left the Sun 54 min 5 s ago.

Satọ́ntị is still 389M km ahead.

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

You could line up 30,529 Earths side by side in the space you have crossed since Jupiter.

You are 70% of the way from Jupiter to Satọ́ntị.

Still nothing. You have crossed 519M km since Jupiter.

The sunlight passing you now left the Sun 1 awa 16 min ago.

Uranus is still 1.31G km ahead.

You could line up 20,605 Earths side by side in the space you have crossed since Satọ́ntị.

You are 27% of the way from Satọ́ntị to Uranus.

Still nothing. You have crossed 525M km since Satọ́ntị.

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 2 awa 3 min ago.

Uranus is still 525M km ahead.

You could line up 82,418 Earths side by side in the space you have crossed since Satọ́ntị.

You are 82% of the way from Satọ́ntị to Uranus.

Still nothing. You have crossed 1.31G km since Satọ́ntị.

The sunlight passing you now left the Sun 2 awa 48 min ago.

Neptune is still 1.33G km ahead.

You could line up 34,840 Earths side by side in the space you have crossed since Uranus.

You are 36% of the way from Uranus to Neptune.

Still nothing. You have crossed 740M km since Uranus.

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 3 awa 37 min ago.

Neptune is still 444M km ahead.

You could line up 104,519 Earths side by side in the space you have crossed since Uranus.

You are 91% of the way from Uranus to Neptune.

Still nothing. You have crossed 129M km since Neptune.

The sunlight passing you now left the Sun 4 awa 24 min ago.

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

Pluto is still 906M km ahead.

You could line up 50,798 Earths side by side in the space you have crossed since Neptune.

You are 55% of the way from Neptune to Pluto.

Still nothing. You have crossed 906M km since Neptune.

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 5 awa 15 min ago.

Pluto is still 129M km ahead.