It takes light a single day to travel 16 billion miles. The Voyager 1 probe will need a little longer, just 49 years.
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Voyager 1: World’s farthest spacecraft nears historic one-light-day from Earth
Voyager 1 is already the first human spacecraft to reach interstellar space and the farthest human-made object from Earth.
April 22 is traditionally known as Earth Day, the occasion where we pause as temporary travelers on our 'blue marble' to honor and respect our precious planetary home and its immeasurable beauty, ...
As it heads out of the solar system never to return, the deep space probe Voyager 1 is headed for yet another cosmic ...
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One NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts to launch to ISS aboard Soyuz MS-28 on Thanksgiving Day
The Soyuz MS-28 will carry NASA astronaut Chris Williams and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergei Mikaev and veteran Sergey ...
This means that it would still take a little over four whole years of traveling at lightspeed to reach the red dwarf—not that ...
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