Gone Forever And Will Outlast The Galaxy

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Voyager will never again fly close enough to an astronomical objects; planets, or star to take pictures. The cosmos is simply just to dark, black, empty and vast. Because space is a vacuum, the Voyager will never decay, or slow down… It will travel on into infinity forever.

 

Voyager is currently traveling at a bit over 1 million miles per hour… it left earth in 1977 A.D. and it will take it about 300 years to reach the Oort cloud, right past Pluto at the end of our solar system. After that it will be considered to be in interstellar space and will not come anywhere near another star for about 40,000 years.

 

This will happen in the year 40,282 A.D. After that, the next star Voyager will encounter will be in the year 304,808 A.D. In the year 596,000 A.D. it will pass by the next star

 

Voyager 2 is a space probe launched by NASA on August 20, 1977 A.D. to study the outer planets and interstellar space beyond the Sun’s heliosphere… Nearly 46 years into their mission, they’ve each made history by boldly venturing beyond the boundary of our sun’s influence, known as the heliopause.

 

 

 

 

About 300 years from now, Voyager should enter the Oort Cloud, a spherical band far beyond Pluto’s orbit that’s full of billions of frozen comets. It should take another 56,000 years to pass through and reach the end of the cloud. From there, It should take the Voyager probe approximately 40,000 years to reach AC+79 3888, a star in the constellation Camelopardalis and the 1st star Voyager will come into close contact with since leaving our own sun.

 

In some 296,000 years after that, Voyager  should drift by Sirius, the next closest and the brightest star in our night sky.

 

 

 

 

About 20,000 years from now will the Voyager pass through the Oort cloud — the shell of comets and icy rubble that orbits the sun at a distance of up to 100,000 astronomical units, or 100,000 times the average Earth-sun distance — finally waving goodbye to its solar system of origin.

 

At that point for the first time the craft will begin to feel the gravitational pull of other stars more strongly than that of our own sun.

 

It’s another 61,000 years before the spacecraft actually come near an alien star, specifically a red dwarf star called Ross 248. That flyby will occur about 30,000 years from now, although it might be a stretch to say that the spacecraft will pass by that star. It’s actually more like Ross 248 shooting past the nearly stationary Voyager.

 

By 500 million years from now, the solar system and the Voyager alike will complete a full orbit through the Milky Way. There’s no way to predict what will have happened on Earth’s surface by then, but it’s a timespan on the scale of the formation and destruction of Pangaea and other supercontinents.

 

From that time till around  billion years, throughout this galactic orbit, the Voyager spacecraft will oscillate up and down, with Voyager 1 doing so more dramatically than its twin. According to these models, Voyager 1 will travel so far above the main disk of the galaxy that it will see stars at just half the density as we do.

 

After those 5 billion years, modeling is tricky. That’s when the Milky Way is due to collide with its massive neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, and things get messy. The orderly spiral shape will be severely warped, and possibly destroyed entirely. The Voyager will be caught up in the merger, with the details difficult to predict so far in advance.

 

Meanwhile, the vicarious sightseeing continues. It’s been calculated that in this 5-billion-year model-friendly period, each of the Voyagers likely visits a star besides our sun within about 150 times the distance between Earth and the sun, or three times the distance between the sun and Pluto at the dwarf planet’s most distant point.

 

 

 

 

Precisely which star that might be, however, is tricky — it may not even be a star we know today.

 

While neither Voyager is likely to get particularly close to any star before the galaxies collide, the craft are likely to at least pass through the outskirts of some [star] system. The very strange part is that that actually might be a system that does not yet exist, of a star that has yet to be born.

 

Such are the perils of working on a scale of billions of years.

 

From here, the Voyagers’ fate depends on the conditions of the galactic merger.

 

Inside the combined galaxy, the Voyagers’ fate would depend on how much dust is left behind by the merger; that may well be minimal as star formation and explosion both slow, reducing the amount of dust flung into the galaxy.

 

Depending on their luck with this dust, the Voyager may be able to ride out trillions of trillions of trillions of years, long enough to cruise through a truly alien cosmos.

 

Such a distant time is far beyond the point where stars have exhausted their fuel and star formation has ceased in its entirety in the universe. The Voyagers will be drifting through what would be, to us, a completely unrecognizable galaxy, free of so-called main-sequence stars, populated almost exclusively by black holes and stellar remnants such as a white dwarfs and neutron stars.

 

It’s a dark future,.. The only source of significant illumination in this epoch will be supernovas that results from the once-in-a-trillion-year collision between these stellar remnants that still populate the galaxy. Our humanity, found on these records, thus may bear witness to these isolated flashes in the dark.

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Voyager is currently traveling at a bit over 1 million miles per hour… it left earth in 1977 A.D. and it will take it about 300 years to reach the Oort cloud, right past Pluto at the end of our solar system. After that it will be considered to be in interstellar space and will not come anywhere near another star for about 40,000 years.

This will happen in the year 40,282 A.D. After that, the next star Voyager will encounter will be in the year 304,808 A.D. In the year 596,000 A.D. it will pass by the next star…

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