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The Voyager 1 probe is now one light day from Earth...
Posted on 2/6/26 at 7:41 pm
Posted on 2/6/26 at 7:41 pm
That means any signal sent or received will take one day to reach and return. As of this writing, the Voyager probe is a little less than 16 billion miles from the planet, traveling at a speed of about 10.5 miles per second.
The Voyager 1 space probe lifted off the face of the Earth on September 5, 1977, and is the first man-made object to reach interstellar space.
The Voyager 1 space probe lifted off the face of the Earth on September 5, 1977, and is the first man-made object to reach interstellar space.
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Posted on 2/6/26 at 7:43 pm to RollTide1987
I believe that’s the fastest manmade object*, and it took 48 1/2 years to travel 1 light day.
*Checked with Grok. For sustained speed it’s Voyager 1, but the Parker Solar Probe has gone faster for a short duration.
*Checked with Grok. For sustained speed it’s Voyager 1, but the Parker Solar Probe has gone faster for a short duration.
This post was edited on 2/6/26 at 8:14 pm
Posted on 2/6/26 at 7:53 pm to RollTide1987
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traveling at a speed of about 10.5 miles per second.
Gas savings is astronomical
Posted on 2/6/26 at 7:56 pm to RollTide1987
Why are you so gay for space?
Posted on 2/6/26 at 7:57 pm to RollTide1987
In the next couple of hundred years they are going to send a spacecraft millions of light years away- point a big ole telescope towards the earth and watch the dinosaurs
Posted on 2/6/26 at 7:58 pm to RollTide1987
Wow, 48.5 years to travel 1 light day, not year!
That means it will only take 17,654 more years to travel 1 light year! Can’t wait to see that!
That means it will only take 17,654 more years to travel 1 light year! Can’t wait to see that!
Posted on 2/6/26 at 7:59 pm to TheHarahanian
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it took 48 1/2 years to travel 1 light day.
If ever one needs to feel wee small…
Damn, how many years to just to cross the Milky Way? 100k ish light YEARS?
Will calculate that when I dust off scientific notation rules.
Posted on 2/6/26 at 7:59 pm to RollTide1987
So you're telling me there are 48 year old batteries that are still working to this day?
Posted on 2/6/26 at 7:59 pm to TheHarahanian
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it took 48 1/2 years to travel 1 light day
and still not even close to the next nearest star...
Posted on 2/6/26 at 8:00 pm to RollTide1987
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traveling at a speed of about 10.5 miles per second.
That’s a mean passing gear.
Posted on 2/6/26 at 8:07 pm to bhtigerfan
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That means it will only take 17,654 more years to travel 1 light year! Can’t wait to see that!
I’ll buy the first round.
Posted on 2/6/26 at 8:12 pm to TheHarahanian
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I believe that’s the fastest manmade object, and it took 48 1/2 years to travel 1 light day.
makes you realize how vast space is !
Posted on 2/6/26 at 8:17 pm to Revorising
Is it accelerating still?
Posted on 2/6/26 at 9:16 pm to RollTide1987
This is a great share 
Posted on 2/6/26 at 9:19 pm to RollTide1987
We have much better tech now. We should launch a Voyager III into deep space.
Posted on 2/6/26 at 9:33 pm to Everyday Is Saturday
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Damn, how many years to just to cross the Milky Way? 100k ish light YEARS?
Close. The Milky Way is 105,700 light years across. And if you want to travel to our closest neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, it will only take you 2,500,000 light years to get there. Or you could simply wait about 4,000,000,000 years and the Andromeda galaxy will collide with the Milky Way.
Space is VERY big.
Posted on 2/6/26 at 10:04 pm to RollTide1987
Sure it is
Posted on 2/6/26 at 10:17 pm to Darth_Vader
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Or you could simply wait about 4,000,000,000 years and the Andromeda galaxy will collide with the Milky Way.
by then the Sun will enlarge to a red giant and engulf Earth, so there's that...
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Space is VERY big.
yep... and honestly, i don't even think that we can and will ever truly grasp exact how big it is... like it's really unfathomable, and truly hard to even quantify and understand...
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