“Famous” image coincidence - Pale Blue Dot

This story happened May 23, 2022.

I was watching Nick Milo’s lessons on LYT Kit 6.

He had a banner of this image in his Home dashboard. He said: ”I'm curious if anyone knows what this image is. It's a very famous image.”

I didn’t recognize it. To me, it looked like a digital image of colored gradients. I thought it was stupid that a piece of “art” like this became famous.

Later that night, I was scrolling through the timeline on

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HelloTalk, and came across this Moment:

It was the same image, but fuller, and with an arrow pointing to a tiny spot on the image that I didn’t notice before.

It turns out it wasn’t a piece of art, but a space probe photograph of Earth from a very long distance away.

I felt stupid for judging it after I understood the significance.

This is what Carl Sagan called a Pale Blue Dot.