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It was technically "interstellar", but given its actual position - still inside the Oort Cloud, for example - it's a bit misleading.

It'd still take another 70+ thousand years for it to reach another star, if it was even heading in the optimal direction for that. That makes it less than 0.07% of the way to the nearest star. At interstellar scales, it's basically still on Earth's surface.

parent antonvs 1 year ago

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