r/spaceporn • u/Busy_Yesterday9455 • Dec 11 '24

Voyager 1 phones home from ~1 light-day away! Related Content

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u/smoothjedi Dec 11 '24

The closest star is Alpha Centauri, and that's 4.25 light years away. Even if it was going that direction, it would still take, at the given rate of 17,155 years/ly, 72.8k years to get there. 20k years is barely out of our solar system, relatively speaking.

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u/Coffeeisbetta Dec 11 '24

The universe is so wildly massive

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u/JustATrueWord Dec 11 '24

Barnard‘s star will be 3,8 light years away from Earth by the year 11.500 and is going to be the nearest star then.