Next year in November, the Voyager 1 spacecraft will be ONE full light day away from the Earth!
Launched in 1977, it took almost 50 Earth years to reach "just" distance of 1 light day
Space is so big and we are so tiny 
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in reply to Kim Possible • • •Not to mention (and this is what always stops me in my tracks) we aren't at a standstill...all moving along, dragged behind a sun that is on it's own spiraling path, in an arm of a galaxy that is also moving through space.
stux⚡
in reply to Wm.son • • •@Sfwmson @kimlockhartga Awesome huh!
Nothing is "still" 😀 It was such a revelation for me that the speed of light in a vacuum is one of the few constants we have
Kim Possible
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in reply to stux⚡ • • •youtu.be/xTIR1B7fRLk
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youtu.beSérgio Machado
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Incredible times when we did really good stuff without AI crap, etc.
since 70's that we stop in time and become bubblefied ...
Brian Gordon
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Truly remarkable. Impossible to imagine. Looking back at all the sci-fi I’ve read, every one had to come up with some ‘magic’ to get around how immense space is.
"Launched in 1977, it took almost 50 Earth years to reach "just" distance of 1 light day"
Marcus
in reply to stux⚡ • • •For more updates on where Voyager 1 is, see @Voyager1.
(I don't see the recent toots from that account's profile; it is part of masto-fu I don't understand)
Petra van Cronenburg
in reply to Marcus • • •@puzzled It's because the server botsinspace is closing - they didn't get enough financing and help.
People often forget that the Fediverse is not running on money by ads but by users.
But you can follow @NSFVoyager2
@stux
Nohaironheed
in reply to stux⚡ • • •Petra van Cronenburg
in reply to stux⚡ • • •And you can even follow the Voyager probes on Mastodon: @NSFVoyager2
#astronomy #Voyager #voyager1 #voyager2
satire
in reply to stux⚡ • • •I thought size didn’t matter — 1.611 x 10^-17 ly is pretty average.
#Space #Voyager #Voyer
Gregory
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in reply to stux⚡ • • •I follow @NSFVoyager2 . When I see a message like:
"I am currently ~19h 32m 21s of light travel time from Earth (2025:284:000000:2L)"
It gives me some much needed perspective. The account also posts about Voyager 1:
techhub.social/@NSFVoyager2/11…
#Space
NSFVoyager2
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in reply to stux⚡ • • •reading A Deepness in the Sky, a Vernor Vinge novel. In it humans have started to colonise the galaxy but at a fraction of the speed of light, so it's no space opera, and it takes centuries to get anywhere...
Space is big...
Richard Michael Blaber
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