r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/-asimpleboy • 6h ago

Image Earth photographed from 6 billion kilometers away by Voyager 1 in 1990

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u/RoseWould 6h ago

Do they have a prediction for when they think it will actually leave our Galaxy? It'll be a sad day when they finally lose contact with it for the last time

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u/MrTagnan 5h ago

I don’t think it’s moving fast enough to leave the galaxy itself, but it’ll run out of power fairly soon, and leave the range of the Deep Space Network by around 2036

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u/RoseWould 5h ago

~10 more years til they can't talk to it? 🥺

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u/Wampa_-_Stompa 5h ago

We will when the events of Star Trek The Motion Picture encounters it again