Zooniverse: continued on Galaxy zoo Hubble. Classifying galaxies. Will likely be doing this for the rest of zooniverse, however long that may be.
APOD: A long long time ago, Voyager 1 was sent off into the solar system, far away. Now 117 Astronomical units from the sun or 17 light hours away, it is now the spacecraft farthest from us after its initial send off in 1977. From its gravity sling-shooting past Jupiter, it now travels at 17 kilometers a second. It has still not reached interstellar space, and will not for some years to come. The Fifth farthest craft will reach Pluto's orbit in July. Four years from now. And that distance is 3 billion kilometers from the sun. Now pardon me while I go home and never ever ever sign up for spacecraft leaving earth, as the idea of being "lost in space" is pretty terrifying. As a small child I cried from being lost in Toys 'r' us. Mierda.
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