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Everything here is at true scale: sizes and distances in the same proportion. Each pixel you scroll carries you 3,000 km.

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Mercury 4,879 km · 0.387 au · 3 ìṣ 13 ìṣ àáy

Venus 12,104 km · 0.723 au · 6 ìṣ 1 ìṣ àáy

Àwọn Ìṣàmúlò-ètò 12,742 km · 1 au · 8 ìṣ 19 ìṣ àáy

Àwọn àyọkà ìṣàfarawégbè 6,779 km · 1.52 au · 12 ìṣ 40 ìṣ àáy

Àwọn ààyè-iṣẹ́ 939 km · 2.77 au · 23 ìṣ 0 ìṣ àáy

Jupiter 139,822 km · 5.2 au · 43 ìṣ 16 ìṣ àáy

Sáà 116,464 km · 9.54 au · 1 wkt 19 ìṣ

Uranus 50,724 km · 19.2 au · 2 wkt 40 ìṣ

Àwọn ààyè-iṣẹ́ 49,244 km · 30.1 au · 4 wkt 10 ìṣ

Àwọn ààyè-iṣẹ́ 2,377 km · 39.6 au · 5 wkt 29 ìṣ

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 mílíọ̀nù km since Mercury.

The sunlight passing you now left the Sun 5 ìṣ 5 ìṣ àáy ago.

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

Àwọn àyọkà ìṣàfarawégbè is still 58.8 mílíọ̀nù 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 Àwọn Ìṣàmúlò-ètò.

You are 14% of the way from Àwọn àyọkà ìṣàfarawégbè to Àwọn ààyè-iṣẹ́.

Still nothing. You have crossed 53.1 mílíọ̀nù km since Àwọn àyọkà ìṣàfarawégbè.

The sunlight passing you now left the Sun 17 ìṣ 6 ìṣ àáy ago.

Àwọn ààyè-iṣẹ́ is still 79.6 mílíọ̀nù 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 Àwọn àyọkà ìṣàfarawégbè.

You are 17% of the way from Àwọn ààyè-iṣẹ́ to Jupiter.

Still nothing. You have crossed 122 mílíọ̀nù km since Àwọn ààyè-iṣẹ́.

The sunlight passing you now left the Sun 33 ìṣ 8 ìṣ àáy ago.

Jupiter is still 122 mílíọ̀nù km ahead.

You could line up 23,846 Earths side by side in the space you have crossed since Àwọn ààyè-iṣẹ́.

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

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

The sunlight passing you now left the Sun 54 ìṣ 5 ìṣ àáy ago.

Sáà is still 389 mílíọ̀nù 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 Sáà.

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

The sunlight passing you now left the Sun 1 wkt 16 ìṣ ago.

Uranus is still 1.31 bilíọ̀nù km ahead.

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

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

Still nothing. You have crossed 525 mílíọ̀nù km since Sáà.

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 wkt 3 ìṣ ago.

Uranus is still 525 mílíọ̀nù km ahead.

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

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

Still nothing. You have crossed 1.31 bilíọ̀nù km since Sáà.

The sunlight passing you now left the Sun 2 wkt 48 ìṣ ago.

Àwọn ààyè-iṣẹ́ is still 1.33 bilíọ̀nù 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 Àwọn ààyè-iṣẹ́.

Still nothing. You have crossed 740 mílíọ̀nù 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 wkt 37 ìṣ ago.

Àwọn ààyè-iṣẹ́ is still 444 mílíọ̀nù 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 Àwọn ààyè-iṣẹ́.

Still nothing. You have crossed 129 mílíọ̀nù km since Àwọn ààyè-iṣẹ́.

The sunlight passing you now left the Sun 4 wkt 24 ìṣ ago.

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

Àwọn ààyè-iṣẹ́ is still 906 mílíọ̀nù km ahead.

You could line up 50,798 Earths side by side in the space you have crossed since Àwọn ààyè-iṣẹ́.

You are 55% of the way from Àwọn ààyè-iṣẹ́ to Àwọn ààyè-iṣẹ́.

Still nothing. You have crossed 906 mílíọ̀nù km since Àwọn ààyè-iṣẹ́.

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 wkt 15 ìṣ ago.

Àwọn ààyè-iṣẹ́ is still 129 mílíọ̀nù km ahead.

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Autopilot speed

Àtòjọ-ẹ̀yàn ààyè-iṣẹ́ (ọ̀fẹ́ ìṣàfarawé kọ́kọ́)

Àwọn Ìṣàmúlò-ètò	Ìṣàmúlò-ètò	Àwọn ààyè-iṣẹ́	Àwọn ààyè-iṣẹ́	px
Mercury	4,879 km	0.387 au	3 ìṣ 13 ìṣ àáy	19,303
Venus	12,104 km	0.723 au	6 ìṣ 1 ìṣ àáy	36,070
Àwọn Ìṣàmúlò-ètò	12,742 km	1 au	8 ìṣ 19 ìṣ àáy	49,866
Àwọn àyọkà ìṣàfarawégbè	6,779 km	1.52 au	12 ìṣ 40 ìṣ àáy	75,981
Àwọn ààyè-iṣẹ́	939 km	2.77 au	23 ìṣ 0 ìṣ àáy	137,907
Jupiter	139,822 km	5.2 au	43 ìṣ 16 ìṣ àáy	259,447
Sáà	116,464 km	9.54 au	1 wkt 19 ìṣ	475,555
Uranus	50,724 km	19.2 au	2 wkt 40 ìṣ	956,886
Àwọn ààyè-iṣẹ́	49,244 km	30.1 au	4 wkt 10 ìṣ	1,499,465
Àwọn ààyè-iṣẹ́	2,377 km	39.6 au	5 wkt 29 ìṣ	1,974,125

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Look back. That bright star is the Sun.