Module 01

The light of
your birth

PLATE № 01 — LIGHT CONE
SCALE · 0–139 LIGHT-YEARS
EPOCH · —

Date of birth

Time (local)

The moment you were born, light left Earth. It has been travelling ever since — one light-year every year — and it can never be called back.

Stars plotted by true distance · angle by right ascension0 of 86 stars reached

Radius of your light

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light-years, expanding as you watch

Distance travelled

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kilometres, at 299,792 km per second

Next star reached

Proxima Centauri

The closest star to the Sun. It has a planet in its habitable zone.

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ARRIVES 14 SEPT 1994 · 4.25 LY

Already reached · 0

None yet. Your light is still inside the first four light-years.

Distances from published parallax measurements, rounded to 0.01 ly.

Positions are schematic: radius is true distance, angle is right ascension. Not a 3-D map.

The light ofyour birth