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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 1680만 km since 수성.

The sunlight passing you now left the Sun 5분 5초 ago.

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

화성 is still 5880만 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 지구.

You are 14% of the way from 화성 to 세레스.

Still nothing. You have crossed 5310만 km since 화성.

The sunlight passing you now left the Sun 17분 6초 ago.

세레스 is still 7960만 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 화성.

You are 17% of the way from 세레스 to 목성.

Still nothing. You have crossed 1.22억 km since 세레스.

The sunlight passing you now left the Sun 33분 8초 ago.

목성 is still 1.22억 km ahead.

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

You are 10% of the way from 목성 to 토성.

Still nothing. You have crossed 1.3억 km since 목성.

The sunlight passing you now left the Sun 54분 5초 ago.

토성 is still 3.89억 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 목성.

You are 70% of the way from 목성 to 토성.

Still nothing. You have crossed 5.19억 km since 목성.

The sunlight passing you now left the Sun 1시간 16분 ago.

천왕성 is still 13.1억 km ahead.

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

You are 27% of the way from 토성 to 천왕성.

Still nothing. You have crossed 5.25억 km since 토성.

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 2시간 3분 ago.

천왕성 is still 5.25억 km ahead.

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

You are 82% of the way from 토성 to 천왕성.

Still nothing. You have crossed 13.1억 km since 토성.

The sunlight passing you now left the Sun 2시간 48분 ago.

해왕성 is still 13.3억 km ahead.

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

You are 36% of the way from 천왕성 to 해왕성.

Still nothing. You have crossed 7.4억 km since 천왕성.

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 3시간 37분 ago.

해왕성 is still 4.44억 km ahead.

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

You are 91% of the way from 천왕성 to 해왕성.

Still nothing. You have crossed 1.29억 km since 해왕성.

The sunlight passing you now left the Sun 4시간 24분 ago.

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

명왕성 is still 9.06억 km ahead.

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

You are 55% of the way from 해왕성 to 명왕성.

Still nothing. You have crossed 9.06억 km since 해왕성.

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 5시간 15분 ago.

명왕성 is still 1.29억 km ahead.