Space Exploration

Voyager 1: Humanity's Farthest Journey

Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 crossed into interstellar space in 2012, becoming the first human-made object to leave the solar system. It is now over 23 billion km from Earth. Its signal, traveling at the speed of light, takes more than 22 ho

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