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[–] 18 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Voyager is fantastic, but it’s still way, way closer to the solar system than anything else.

An excerpt from Wikipedia:

At this rate, it would need about 17,565 years to travel a single light-year.[78] To compare, Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Sun, is about 4.2 light-years (2.65×105 AU) distant. If the spacecraft was traveling in the direction of that star, it would take 73,775 years to reach it. Voyager 1 is heading in the direction of the constellation Ophiuchus.

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