Pale Blue Dot

photograph of planet Earth taken on 14 February 1990 by the unmanned Voyager 1 spaceprobe from a record distance of about 6 billion kilometers
Photograph photograph Q474472
Pale Blue Dot
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration. · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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Pale Blue Dot

Summary

Pale Blue Dot is a photograph[1]. It draws 850 Wikipedia views per month (photograph category, ranking #15 of 119).[2]

Key Facts

  • Pale Blue Dot is the creator of Voyager 1[3].
  • Pale Blue Dot's image is recorded as Earth as a "Pale Blue Dot" photographed by Voyager 1 - 19900606.tif[4].
  • Pale Blue Dot's instance of is recorded as photograph[5].
  • Pale Blue Dot's genre is recorded as astrophotography[6].
  • Pale Blue Dot's depicts is recorded as Earth[7].
  • Pale Blue Dot's part of is recorded as Family Portrait[8].
  • Pale Blue Dot's Commons category is recorded as Pale Blue Dot[9].
  • +1990-02-14T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Pale Blue Dot[10].
  • Pale Blue Dot's publication date is recorded as +1990-06-06T00:00:00Z[11].
  • Pale Blue Dot's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03ydz4[12].
  • Pale Blue Dot's spoken text audio is recorded as The Pale Blue Dot Voiceover.ogg[13].
  • Pale Blue Dot's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Pale Blue Dot'}[14].
  • Pale Blue Dot's Quora topic ID is recorded as Pale-Blue-Dot[15].
  • Pale Blue Dot's copyright status is recorded as public domain[16].
  • Pale Blue Dot's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 67267119[17].

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Works and Contributions

Pale Blue Dot is the creator of Voyager 1[3].

Why It Matters

Pale Blue Dot draws 850 Wikipedia views per month (photograph category, ranking #15 of 119).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] It is known by 18 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . planetary.org. planetary.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . planetary.org. planetary.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [6] . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] . planetary.org. planetary.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . planetary.org. planetary.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . planetary.org. planetary.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . planetary.org. planetary.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Pale Blue Dot. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/pale-blue-dot
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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_pale-blue-dot_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Pale Blue Dot}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/pale-blue-dot}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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