What makes the story even more surprising is the technology behind it.
Since February 1998 – when it surpassed the previous record-holder, NASA’s outer-planet explorer Pioneer 10 – Voyager 1 has been the farthest human-made object in existence. Even now, more than 48 ...
It takes a beam of light a single day to travel 16.1 billion miles, a distance known as a light-day. It'll take Voyager 1, the American spacecraft moving at 10.6 miles per second, more than 49 years ...
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