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Voyager 1

Spacecraft · NASA space probe launched in 1977

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Voyager 1
Picture: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

About Voyager 1

On 2026-01-01, the date the map shows, Voyager 1 was 169 AU from the Sun; sunlight takes 23.5 hours to reach it.

The map lists it as a spacecraft and shows it in the Solar System part of the map, drawn on the plane of Earth’s orbit (the ecliptic).

The most distant human-made object. Crossed the heliopause in 2012 at 121.6 AU; passes one light-day from Earth on 2026-11-18.

Key numbers

Distance from the Sun169 AU

Where it is

Its place in the universe, from the inside out: Solar System › Orion–Cygnus Arm (Local Arm) › Milky Way › Local Group › Virgo Supercluster › Laniakea Supercluster › Observable universe.

Zoom out to see it in context: Heliopause and Voyagers, a view about 400 AU across.

From Wikipedia

Voyager 1 is a space probe launched by NASA on September 5, 1977, as part of the Voyager program, to study the outer Solar System and the interstellar space beyond the Sun's heliosphere. It was launched 16 days after its twin, Voyager 2.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Voyager 1, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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