This is Voyager 1, the farthest thing humans have ever built

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This is Voyager 1, the farthest thing humans have ever built. It launched in 1977 and left the Sun’s giant bubble, the heliosphere, in 2012. Now it is flying through interstellar space. On November 18, 2026, it will be one full light day away. That means its radio signals take a whole day to reach us!

This is Voyager 1, the farthest thing humans have ever built. It launched in 1977 and left the Sun's giant bubble, the heliosphere, in 2012. Now it is flying through interstellar space.

This is Voyager 1, the farthest thing humans have ever built. It launched in 1977 and left the Sun's giant bubble, the heliosphere, in 2012. Now it is flying through interstellar space.

Voyager 1 launched in 1977 on a four-year mission and is still flying 49 years later, now so far away that in November 2026 a radio signal will take a full 24

No spacecraft has ever gone farther than Voyager 1. It is about 25 billion km from the Sun. It moves at about 61,000 km per hour. That is fast enough to cross the whole Earth in less than one hour. ...

 

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