Voyager 1 is nearly one light-day from Earth. What’s out there?

joshua9050 | 5 hours ago

It is in the Heliopause and still a long way from the Oort cloud. A bunch if nothing is out there.

AlwaysUpvotesScience | 2 hours ago

Yes, but is never before seen nothing, not like that common "space between the earth and the moon" nothing.

CosmicRuin | 5 hours ago

About 10 protons per cubic centimeter.

And in ~40,000 years it may pass within about 1.5 light years of another star, Gliese 445.

kevinnoir | 3 hours ago

> And in ~40,000 years it may pass within about 1.5 light years of another star, Gliese 445.

Can't wait to see that.

ChodaRagu | 3 hours ago

Damn! I remember when it launched, in elementary school! (I’m 54 now.)

One light day?!? Go faster!!

753951321654987 | an hour ago

Right?? But the. You think how fast light it and imagine going that fast for 24 hours that's still such an amazing achievement to reach

PossibleAlienFrom | 49 minutes ago

Imagine in the future we figure out faster than light tech then we go and retrieve it to put it in a museum. Then we send more Voyagers out to research other solar systems.

Far_Out_6and_2 | 8 minutes ago

Nothing except a vast vacuum