Comment Comment by divbzero It’s also wild to compare:– how far Voyager 1 has already traveled ~150 AU or ~0.002 ly [1]– how much farther it could go in 40,000 years ~1,000,000 AU or ~17 ly [2] [3]– the visible diameter of our Milky Way ~6,000,000,000 AU or ~100,000 ly [4][1]: https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status/[2]: https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/interstellar-mission/[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliese_445[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way parent divbzero 5 years ago
– how far Voyager 1 has already traveled ~150 AU or ~0.002 ly [1]
– how much farther it could go in 40,000 years ~1,000,000 AU or ~17 ly [2] [3]
– the visible diameter of our Milky Way ~6,000,000,000 AU or ~100,000 ly [4]
[1]: https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status/
[2]: https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/interstellar-mission/
[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliese_445
[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way