In the “Pale Blue Dot” photo why is earth “suspended in a sun beam”?

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the way I imagine it the sun is emitting light from all angles at all times. Why did the photo have streaks of light? I assume this is because of the camera but it has multiple pilers of light so I am confused. maybe because the sun doesn’t emit the same amount of light from each area depending on flares? I am tagging this physics but if people think that this is more engineering I’ll change it.

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He knows too much. But in all honestly idk and would also care to know previous response was removed so here are some fun facts. The great heat death of the universe is when all atoms, that will eventually decay, have decayed. And this ends the entire universe as we know it.

Now heres another fun fact! Magnetars, even though they are huge as moons or even Earths, can spin 600-700 a second. This is the equivalent of a kitchen blender speed!

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