I wanna touch it.
this post was submitted on 07 Dec 2024
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I’m afraid it’s going to take an infinite amount of time.
you just have to believe
good luckkkk
Thanks! I think I'm going to need it!
So how long is it gonna take for its pictures to be as sharp as the pictures we currently can take of distant star systems?
However long it takes us to build a craft with a camera that can climb above the galactic plane and look down at the core. There's too much stuff in the way from where we are:
So...not before next Tuesday?
Probably not. As far away as Voyager 1 & 2 are, if you marked them on this map they would still just be on top of our star.