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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 16,8 мільйона km since Меркурій.

The sunlight passing you now left the Sun 5 хв 5 с ago.

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

Марс is still 58,8 мільйона 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 Земля.

You are 14% of the way from Марс to Церера.

Still nothing. You have crossed 53,1 мільйона km since Марс.

The sunlight passing you now left the Sun 17 хв 6 с ago.

Церера is still 79,6 мільйона 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 Марс.

You are 17% of the way from Церера to Юпітер.

Still nothing. You have crossed 122 мільйони km since Церера.

The sunlight passing you now left the Sun 33 хв 8 с ago.

Юпітер is still 122 мільйони km ahead.

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

You are 10% of the way from Юпітер to Сатурн.

Still nothing. You have crossed 130 мільйонів km since Юпітер.

The sunlight passing you now left the Sun 54 хв 5 с ago.

Сатурн is still 389 мільйонів 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 Юпітер.

You are 70% of the way from Юпітер to Сатурн.

Still nothing. You have crossed 519 мільйонів km since Юпітер.

The sunlight passing you now left the Sun 1 год 16 хв ago.

Уран is still 1,31 мільярда km ahead.

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

You are 27% of the way from Сатурн to Уран.

Still nothing. You have crossed 525 мільйонів km since Сатурн.

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 год 3 хв ago.

Уран is still 525 мільйонів km ahead.

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

You are 82% of the way from Сатурн to Уран.

Still nothing. You have crossed 1,31 мільярда km since Сатурн.

The sunlight passing you now left the Sun 2 год 48 хв ago.

Нептун is still 1,33 мільярда km ahead.

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

You are 36% of the way from Уран to Нептун.

Still nothing. You have crossed 740 мільйонів km since Уран.

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 год 37 хв ago.

Нептун is still 444 мільйони km ahead.

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

You are 91% of the way from Уран to Нептун.

Still nothing. You have crossed 129 мільйонів km since Нептун.

The sunlight passing you now left the Sun 4 год 24 хв ago.

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

Плутон is still 906 мільйонів km ahead.

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

You are 55% of the way from Нептун to Плутон.

Still nothing. You have crossed 906 мільйонів km since Нептун.

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 год 15 хв ago.

Плутон is still 129 мільйонів km ahead.