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*Wikipedia > Pale Blue Dot — Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of planet Earth taken on February 14, 1990, by the Voyager 1 space probe from a record distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles, 40.5 AU), as part of that day's Family Portrait series of images of the Solar System. In the photograph, Earth's apparent size is less than a pixel; the planet appears as a tiny dot against the vastness of space, among bands of sunlight reflected by the camera.
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In his 1994 book, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space, Carl Sagan comments on what he sees as the greater significance of the photograph, writing:

From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

…Voyager 1 is NASA’s oldest space mission operating for 45 years, 1 month and 13 days as of October 18, 2022 UTC and communicated to the Deep Space Network to receive routine commands and to transmit data to Earth. A radio signal — traveling at light speed — from Voyager 1 takes nearly 22 hours to reach Earth.

Real-time distance and velocity data is provided by NASA and JPL. At a distance of 158.25 AU (14.710 billion miles) from Earth as of October 2022, it is the most distant man-made object from Earth. See the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Voyager website for current information.