Second man-made object leaves the solar system, enters interstellar space

[James Snover]

News | NASA's Voyager 2 Probe Enters Interstellar Space

 

[LuuisHernandez]

I love keeping track of both Voyager probes. Before my kids, I was all for going into space without the promise of return lol.


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[HudsonFalcon]

I love keeping track of both Voyager probes. Before my kids, I was all for going into space without the promise of return lol.


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I'm just the opposite. After my kids I'm looking for a guaranteed one way trip.

 

[jeffh81]

I'm just the opposite. After my kids I'm looking for a guaranteed one way trip.

Family life that bad that you’re willing to risk some interstellar probing. Lol

 

[HudsonFalcon]

Family life that bad that you’re willing to risk some interstellar probing. Lol

I dream of green women.

#SpaceForce

 

[Skitzerman]

I dream of women with an extra set of ( . Y . )'s and a tongue in the T what.

 

[rwleonard]

Careful, where there is a tongue, there are usually teeth!

 

[PhoenixM3]

I dream of women with an extra set of ( . Y . )'s and a tongue in the T what.

Giggled at T What....

 

[xblitzkriegx]

Careful, where there is a tongue, there are usually teeth!

Acceptable risk.

To bodly go where no man has gone before.

 

[Weather Man]

The Posleen will get a good chuckle on the way in.

 

[CobraBob]

That is so amazing. "Voyager 2 now is slightly more than 11 billion miles (18 billion kilometers) from Earth." 11 billion miles from Earth!!! I can't wrap my brain around that. Wow.

 

[98 svt]

That is so amazing. "Voyager 2 now is slightly more than 11 billion miles (18 billion kilometers) from Earth." 11 billion miles from Earth!!! I can't wrap my brain around that. Wow.

The one that really got me was that it would take 16+ hours for a light on Earth to be seen from Voyager 2.

 

[Silverstrike]

The one that really got me was that it would take 16+ hours for a light on Earth to be seen from Voyager 2.

Yes this just reinforces just how expansive space is when the speed of light 186,000 miles a second takes hours to reach Voyager 2's position.

 

[James Snover]

The Posleen will get a good chuckle on the way in.

They get what's coming to them.

 

[DaleM]

That is so amazing. "Voyager 2 now is slightly more than 11 billion miles (18 billion kilometers) from Earth." 11 billion miles from Earth!!! I can't wrap my brain around that. Wow.

And over a 100 billion galaxies. Makes life less a surprise when you look at it from that perspective.

OK Bozos, stop clowning around.

 

[Weather Man]

They get what's coming to them.

 

[IronSnake]

Alright alright alright

You know what I like about them intersteller probes man? As I get older, they stay the same age

 

[CV355]

That is so amazing. "Voyager 2 now is slightly more than 11 billion miles (18 billion kilometers) from Earth." 11 billion miles from Earth!!! I can't wrap my brain around that. Wow.

Even crazier, there is a black hole in a nearby galaxy (relatively speaking) where the event horizon is larger than the radius between us and Voyager 2. Imagine a single object that massive. 7 times the diameter of the solar system. The average density is estimated to be close to that of water.

Even crazier? That massive thing is still just a speck of dust compared to the size of an average galaxy.

Even crazier? Those galaxies are specks of dust compared to the local supercluster

I could go on and on. tl;dr the universe is the biggest yo-mamma joke ever.