Stuff in the Sky

[SilverFly]

Not my pic, but I could have taken this with a decent camera. Or seen with my eyes if they could do a 30 second time exposure.

 

[Canuck from Kansas]

An amazing milestone.

https://apnews.com/article/nasa-voyager-interstellar-space-light-day-67f53a0e274157c92305e0b03d4b800d

But think of it, it has taken almost 50 years to travel 1 light day. The estimate is 18,000 years to travel 1 light year. The nearest possibly habitable planet is Proxima Centauri b, about 4.25 light years away, so it would take 76,500 years for Voyager 1 to travel there. Makes you wonder about all those folks who have been probed in areas we'd rather not speak of; those would be some long-lived critters doin' that probing.

 

[Paige]

An amazing milestone.

https://apnews.com/article/nasa-voyager-interstellar-space-light-day-67f53a0e274157c92305e0b03d4b800d

But think of it, it has taken almost 50 years to travel 1 light day. The estimate is 18,000 years to travel 1 light year. The nearest possibly habitable planet is Proxima Centauri b, about 4.25 light years away, so it would take 76,500 years for Voyager 1 to travel there. Makes you wonder about all those folks who have been probed in areas we'd rather not speak of; those would be some long-lived critters doin' that probing.

cept worm holes, and warp drive