Solar system's the model for historic `family portrait'

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: June 9, 1990| Author: | Copyright information

As any photographer knows, shooting into the sun is tricky. But the spacecraft Voyager 1, zooming out of the solar system on its way to alien stars, had no choice when it snapped a historic "family portrait" of the solar system - the first taken from outside looking in.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration released the photographs this week.

The lonely subjects of the portrait are spread across more than 3 billion miles. Some are washed out or impaled in the solar glare, and some are elongated by motion. The "photographer" was about 4 billion miles from the sun when it ...

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