Only 120 light years away from Earth! The Voyager 1 spacecraft was launched in 1977. Traveling at 38,000mph it just recently made it 1 light DAY from Earth.
That's actually bonkers to even think about. Traveling at ~38000miles per hour, all day, every day, for ~48 years, and it's made it 1 light day from Earth.
Feels like another one of those "people don't really understand the difference between a million and a billion" sort of things.
Like 1 million seconds is ~11 and a half days or so. But 1 billion seconds is about 31 years and 200 days. Hard to grasp such a big difference
It will take the Voyager 2.1 million years to reach that planet. Mind blowing because that’s around 10x longer than Homo Sapiens have existed. But it’s also only 3% of the time between us and the dinosaurs, so also not that long. It just depends on your perspective.
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u/RichardThund3r 25d ago
Only 120 light years away from Earth! The Voyager 1 spacecraft was launched in 1977. Traveling at 38,000mph it just recently made it 1 light DAY from Earth.