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I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Next year, Voyager I will have traveled 1 light day. It will also be over 49 years old at that time. Think about that for a moment. Almost 50 years to travel the time it takes light to travel in a single day. Our closest star is Proxima Centauri is 4.25 light years away. To reach Proxima Centauri, Voyager I would need to travel ~77,500 years. Voyager 1 is one of the fastest man-made objects in existence and it would take longer than the entire history of civilization to arrive.

Space is big.

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