Our Place in The Universe
We still have a long way to go
I woke up to a story today that shows just how small and insignificant we are when we look at our place in the universe.
Voyager 1 was launched by NASA on September 5, 1977. Its mission to study the solar system and beyond.
It has been travelling through space for almost fifty years now. It will go on indefinitely — unless it gets picked up by aliens along the way!
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It is now so far away that it has become the furthest human-made object in space.
And after fifty years, it is now one light-day away.
That’s a long way, but…
The nearest star to our sun is over four light-years away.
The size if the universe is currently estimated to be around 13.8 billion light-years.
In time, if Voyager survives to travel 13.8 billion light-years, it will outlive our planet and sun.
