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 ~

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/ https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status/ [2]: https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/interstellar-mission/ https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/interstellar-mission/ [3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliese_445 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliese_445 [4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way