The ultimate destination of humanity's most distant messengers
In short: Launched in 1977, the Voyager probes have traveled over 15 billion miles to reach interstellar space. This video explores their journey beyond our solar system and what awaits them among the stars over the next millions of years.
Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 were designed to explore the outer planets—Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune—before crossing the heliopause into the interstellar medium. Despite decades of cosmic ray bombardment and extreme cold, their instruments continue to transmit faint radio signals from the direction of the Ophiuchus and Andromeda constellations.
The probes carry the Golden Record, a curated collection of Earth's sounds, images, and greetings in 55 languages. While they currently travel toward distant stars like red dwarfs and blue giants, their ultimate fate remains an epic journey spanning millions of years.
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