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by RosanaAnaDana 2425 days ago
Inverse square law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse-square_law

>(...) Intensity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the source of that physical quantity.

Shit gets dimmer at the square of the distance. So if at a distance of 1 a thing has a brightness of one, at a distance of 2 it has a brightness of 1/(2^2), or 1/4. At a distance of 8, you are looking at a brightness of 1/(8^2) or 1/64th.

Voyager 2 is ~122 AU distant. So the sun's apparent brightness would be 1/(122^2), or 1/14884, or 0.00067 % as bright as the sun as perceived at the earth-sun distance (ignoring the atmosphere of course).