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Voyager reaches inner edge of Oort cloud in 300 years, outer edge in 30,000 years.

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 Each apparent pixel in this low-res rendering is approximately 1 AU², where 1 AU ({{w|astronomical unit}}) is the distance from the Sun to the earth. The Sun is off the left side of the image by about 30 pixels, meaning that of all the planets in the solar system, only Neptune would have an orbit that is within the image at all (at the left edge). The {{w|heliosphere}} is 120 AU from the sun, in the direction that Voyager 1 is travelling: Voyager crossed that milestone in August 2012. At time of publication Voyager was just over 150 AU from the Sun, as shown in the image.
-Continuing on its course at 38,000 mph, or 3.6 AU/year, Voyager will reach the outer edge of the {{w|Oort cloud}}, the edge of our solar system, in about 300 years.
+Continuing on its course at 38,000 mph, or 3.6 AU/year, Voyager will reach the outer edge of the {{w|Oort cloud}}, the edge of our solar system, in about [https://science.nasa.gov/resource/oort-cloud-and-scale-of-the-solar-system-infographic/ 30,000 years].
 The title text refers to 'our spacetime {{w|codec}}', suggesting a representation of reality itself as a series of ones and zeros. If empty space is the darkest possible thing that can be represented--which may be the case when only 16 levels are available (see above)--then it is possible that {{w|dark matter}} is ''so'' dark that it cannot be represented: it would require a negative number, which is not available. This is the {{w|dynamic range}} issue mentioned.

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 The title text refers to 'our spacetime {{w|codec}}', suggesting a representation of reality itself as a series of ones and zeros. If empty space is the darkest possible thing that can be represented--which may be the case when only 16 levels are available (see above)--then it is possible that {{w|dark matter}} is ''so'' dark that it cannot be represented: it would require a negative number, which is not available. This is the {{w|dynamic range}} issue mentioned.
-The title text may also be a pun on the term "[[w|Render]]", as the codec's issues would both make cause the dark matter to be undetectable and, in the metaphor of the universe as a simulation, literally fail to render the "pixels" in the dark matter. This is the play on the term "Render" having multiple definitions, both meaning "To cause to become" and being the term in computing for "Transforming (a model) into a display on the screen or other media" [[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/render#English Wikitionary]]
+The title text may also be a pun on the term "{{w|Render}}", as the codec's issues would both make cause the dark matter to be undetectable and, in the metaphor of the universe as a simulation, literally fail to render the "pixels" in the dark matter. This is the play on the term "Render" having multiple definitions, both meaning "To cause to become" and being the term in computing for "Transforming (a model) into a display on the screen or other media", as per {{wiktionary|render#English|Wikitionary}}.
 Artefacts are evident in [[1683: Digital Data]], and mentioned in the title text of [[331: Photoshops]].

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	The title text refers to 'our spacetime {{w\|codec}}', suggesting a representation of reality itself as a series of ones and zeros. If empty space is the darkest possible thing that can be represented--which may be the case when only 16 levels are available (see above)--then it is possible that {{w\|dark matter}} is ''so'' dark that it cannot be represented: it would require a negative number, which is not available. This is the {{w\|dynamic range}} issue mentioned.		The title text refers to 'our spacetime {{w\|codec}}', suggesting a representation of reality itself as a series of ones and zeros. If empty space is the darkest possible thing that can be represented--which may be the case when only 16 levels are available (see above)--then it is possible that {{w\|dark matter}} is ''so'' dark that it cannot be represented: it would require a negative number, which is not available. This is the {{w\|dynamic range}} issue mentioned.
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		+	The title text may also be a pun on the term "[[w\|Render]]", as the codec's issues would both make cause the dark matter to be undetectable and, in the metaphor of the universe as a simulation, literally fail to render the "pixels" in the dark matter. This is the play on the term "Render" having multiple definitions, both meaning "To cause to become" and being the term in computing for "Transforming (a model) into a display on the screen or other media" [[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/render#English Wikitionary]]

	Artefacts are evident in [[1683: Digital Data]], and mentioned in the title text of [[331: Photoshops]].		Artefacts are evident in [[1683: Digital Data]], and mentioned in the title text of [[331: Photoshops]].

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 ==Trivia==
-* At the time of the fly-by of {{w|Neptune}}, in 1989, it was the outermost of the the nine officially recognised planets.
+* At the time of the fly-by of {{w|Neptune}}, in 1989, it was the outermost of the nine officially recognised planets.
 * The more highly eliptical orbit of {{w|Pluto}}, which was also unfavourably positioned for any Voyager mission encounter, meant that it would be another ten years before it was the actual outermost planet, well behind the respective Voyager crafts' progress away from the Sun.
 * Pluto was then 'demoted' from being a full planet in 2005, meaning that Neptune officially became the outermost of the (eight) planets, well in advance of the next orbital 'switch' (roughly in the 2220s to 2240s) when Pluto's path would bring it closer to the Sun once more.

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 ==Trivia==
-* At the time of the fly-by of {{w|Neptune}}, in 1989, it was the outermost of the nine officially recognised planets.
+* At the time of the fly-by of {{w|Neptune}}, in 1989, it was the outermost of the the nine officially recognised planets.
 * The more highly eliptical orbit of {{w|Pluto}}, which was also unfavourably positioned for any Voyager mission encounter, meant that it would be another ten years before it was the actual outermost planet, well behind the respective Voyager crafts' progress away from the Sun.
 * Pluto was then 'demoted' from being a full planet in 2005, meaning that Neptune officially became the outermost of the (eight) planets, well in advance of the next orbital 'switch' (roughly in the 2220s to 2240s) when Pluto's path would bring it closer to the Sun once more.

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