How Far Have the Voyagers Got? What Happened to Them?

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Roughly half a year before this video was posted, on 15 April 2021, the automatic space probe New Horizons became the fifth spacecraft in the history of the humanity to go beyond the point of 50 AU from the Sun. It was the Voyagers that had crossed this mark before, with the probes Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 the first ever to do so. None of these space wanderers are likely to ever return to the Earth. With some of them still active on their missions, others have gone quiet forever...
00:00 Intro
01:28 New Horizons
04:29 Pioneer 10
05:31 Pioneer 11
06:41 Voyager 1
09:29 Voyager 2
11:32 Ending
#Voyager #NewHorizons #Pioneer10 #Planets #SolarSystem #Kosmo

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[@UtraVioletDreams]

As Always. Thumbs up from Holland.

[@michaelmarshall3729]

Great content, thumbs up from Texas.

[@mugishagiftarnold992]

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[@amreetratnams7332]

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[@leojonson8046]

Awesome :D

[@iwasadeum]

Isn't it insane that, even when just talking about our own little solar system, we're talking tens of thousands of years for a craft moving at more than 60,000 kph? The size of space is utterly mind-blowing.

[@wallywibbly250]

That's pretty damn insane. Easily 9/10 of the insanity scale

[@robertzarraga3423]

It haunts me

[@scottworley1479]

Mind blowing, hard to see man ever leaving this solar system

[@damarrizkypangestu4310]

And it keeps expanding way faster than the speed of light.

[@Abominable_Intelligences]

Im hoping for a day where we would still be here when we finally confirmed that a sapient life exists on an different system

[@georgetwydell6166]

I don’t know why but I always have the most bizarre feeling combinations about Voyager 1 and 2 of fascination, being proud of a machine, but also a sort of sadness that it’s destined to drift away forever… but also that we will never get to see what it will before eventually becoming cosmic dust. It’s a sense of loneliness which I think is too much for the human mind to comprehend.

[@raven4k998]

you know it's surprising that they lasted as long as they have think about it your pc never lasted that long so yeah the fact the voyager computers continuing to operate that long is rather impressive if you think about it

[@DatDude0925]

This is where I’m at. You’re right. It’s weird. And sort of beyond our ability to comprehend.

[@carman8140]

Ive made an oath if I'm every a trilllionaire to figure out FTL, and fly to them. If ones broken, take it back, but if ones still working, slap a "we love you" sticker on it and let it chill.

[@bannedagain8123]

Man you said this very well prolly for the best tho we fight over land and people being different who’s to say we won’t whip out an entire species or the other way around

[@bdo333]

I know what your mean. It also gets me excited. This is technology from the 70s moving at tens of thousands miles per hour. With how far we advanced in a short time span, I look forward for the discoveries that will be made in the future.

[@Aaron_Gentry]

Imagine moving at nearly 40,000 mph and still taking thousands and thousands of years to leave even our solar system behind O_O The vastness and emptiness of space is absolutely staggering

[@carllawler2837]

Huh ?

[@robbleeker4777]

The speed of the moving object is just not big enough..Mind you, they were not designed for speed. The Voyager program wasn't even planned to last this long...

[@ryanmcgowan3061]

OK, now imagine a probe leaving the Milky Way Galaxy for Andromeda, our nearest neighbor galaxy, and at 40,000 mph not even being close to the escape velocity of the Milky Way. No problem, we're on an Earth-sized ship heading toward it at 244,800 mph. Still, that trip is going to take us 4,000,000,000 years. That's the true emptiness of space. Every hour, crossing 244,800 miles and crossing nothing, for 4 billion years.

[@tedbak3387]

Observable universe is 94 billion light year long and 92 wide 1 light year is 9.4 trillion km

[@Michaelw777.52]

@@ryanmcgowan3061 Well dang. That ruined my lunch plans!

[@blockmasterscott]

What amazes me is that there are people smart enough to make a program telling the probes to make a gravity sling shot around one fast moving planet so it can meet another fast moving planet months later. The mathematics involved got to look like something crazy on a blackboard.

[@ryanmcgowan3061]

Just adding a lot of vectors. The tough part is the fact that one small nudge of 0.1 mph can alter a course by thousands of miles as it passes by the planet. There's no way to predict it, so they must always make corrections after every close pass.

[@TeleCaster66]

It's all fake

[@tyharris78]

Some calculus could do it

[@davsaltego]

@@TeleCaster66 So are you

[@TheIsmaelIsaac]

It's story man non of that is true .. you know what is need in kilowatts the radio frequency transmitter to be powered in order to transmit a signal for only 100 miles?? Research, dude

[@northerndashcam8912]

Just makes you realise how small we are and that mediocre things don’t really matter in the grand scheme of things

[@justanotherfella4585]

The universe is not only larger than we can imagine but we’ll not ever get to explore more than a minute scrap of it.

[@DeuceGenius]

ya i like carl sagans intro to the pale blue dot. when we first seen that image of earth as a tiny pixel. he wrote it more beautifully than i ever could

[@AsmodeusMictian]

​@@DeuceGenius That gets me literally every time I hear it. All these missions remind me of how laughably tiny our giant planet is. Not so much as a mote of dust once you get a little ways away from it.

[@greekfreak384]

What if it’s not and we are the only living things here and out of space doesn’t exist? It’s just us on earth. Would we value our lives more? That’s just as scary as thinking we are a tiny speck in this entire galaxy. Either way we won’t ever know. Unless we get into Area 51 😂😂. Don’t take this reply too seriously, I’m only joking.

[@marioalfonso3214]

What a lie .bit I guess is okay believe Lol 😆🤣😂 to do and count starts we need to live thousands year at least lol

[@delta0dst]

Can we take a moment to appreciate and be amazed that, despite the year when they were built and launched, they’re still partially functional

[@SW-mv6fw]

My ex wife's backside is larger

[@robertwillis4061]

That's because they use simple technology. Do you expect a Tesla car to get beyond 7 years old.

[@michaelsmith5769]

They also weren't built for longevity. It was just to explore Jupiter and Saturn. Imagine if they put some thought into it.

[@dyetman0714]

@@robertwillis4061 I'll give you tesla, but this isn't exactly accurate. Case and point, Cars made in the 50s and 60s didn't make it very far mileage or longevity wise, cars today live 2 to 4 times as long.

[@Real-Ruby-Red]

@@dyetman0714 2 to 4? The average engine had a lifetime of no more than 30k miles, nowadays engines made in 08-12 have 200k miles on them

[@archangelwarrior8900]

Imagine if the Voyager 1 came back but upgraded with Alien tech that would be some news huh.

[@johnthomas5314]

That's basically the plot of Star Trek: The Motion Picture

[@feroth33]

@@johnthomas5314 I was literally coming on here to say that lol

[@gmac8852]

Depends on what the aliens put in it before they send it back.

[@patricke170]

@@johnthomas5314no that was voyager 6

[@JohnnyNiteTrain]

In the time it took to watch this video, Voyager 1 and 2 both traveled almost 9,000 miles in their respective directions. Let that sink in for a minute. Mind boggling.

[@engineer1able]

The Earth moved over 20,000 miles in its orbit during the same time. Voyagers are a bit slow in comparison.

[@jamesbarisitz4794]

Tremendous visuals, animation, and graphics. I feel your production values and scripts are close to matching some of the best bigger budget offerings anywhere. Great job. !

[@walterevelyn243]

γ κ

[@mangokittyrawr]

Only problem for me is that hes speaking in British... if only he knew how to speak English... i can't understand.

[@nexomelian8577]

@@mangokittyrawr 😂 This one made me chuckle

[@Kxy2x]

@@mangokittyrawr Fr

[@lostsquirrel788]

@@mangokittyrawr what

[@rupe53]

it takes roughly 8 minutes for light to reach us from the sun and my mind still has issues accepting how far a light year really is, never mind where these probes will be in the future.

[@michaeltalley51]

Narrator: "None of these space wanderers are likely to return to the earth." Voyager 6: "Hold my beer"

[@deepdragon2]

V'ger hold mine too...

[@sidecarbod1441]

@@deepdragon2 The Narrator obviously has not watched the Star Trek films.

[@linjunda9617]

There's only two Voyagers.

[@Gabriel_Cook]

@@linjunda9617 Star Trek humor. They thought there'd be more, included Voyager 6 in the 1st film.

[@Cassini-Huygens]

👍🏻😍

[@CommodoreFloopjack78]

It would be awesome if humanity exists long enough to develop space travel technology that's sufficiently advanced to track down the Voyagers and bring them home.

[@pavel9652]

I am curious about what will happen to these devices in the very distant future. It will be expensive to get them back, but these days people do lots of things for no reason other than doing it. The same applies to the historic landing site on the Moon. I think one might attempt to bring Voyagers to some sort of cosmic museum in the system. The Apollo Moon site will require protection from pato-streamers ;)

[@TheBandit7613]

We are too busy spending money on new weapons. We should be much more advanced by now. Mars should already be colonized, new engines should have been developed. But no. We have some really expensive horrific weapons though so it's not a complete loss. We can kill thousands of people very quickly.

[@CommodoreFloopjack78]

@@TheBandit7613 Hell, we don't even need weapons for that last part, Mother Nature's taking care of that one all on her own.

[@DaGirlzGoCrazy]

We can only hope we last that long

[@pavel9652]

There will be people who will want to leave it as it is, which is also a valid point! To get them back, however, we would need a lot of delta-v, at least twice the amount used. Ideally, it would be good to identify a large object, such as a rogue planet lurking in the darkness, and use it to reverse the trajectory of the spacecraft with gravity assist.

[@thanoossoul]

when you feel alone.. while think about voyager twins 💔

[@cosmic2096]

Tbh, I have been imagining about them in my mind 🌌

[@stevenwilliams1805]

I often do. 1977 was the year I was born.

[@joseaceves3457]

@@stevenwilliams1805 no one cares

[@nikobellic27]

@@joseaceves3457 no one cares that you said no one cares

[@AnimeLover-yn5ns]

@@joseaceves3457 Well i care

[@Geckogold]

It's kind of awesome, humbling, and sad to know that these probes expanded our knowledge of our solar system. And as they continue on, we're going to lose contact with them as they continue flying off into parts unknown.

[@pavel9652]

There is nothing we can do about it. Anything else would be costly and at best we could only retain them in the solar system on some briefly controlled orbits at best that would quickly decayed.

[@popomomo12]

Salute to these brave bots

[@darrellhardy3507]

I feel the same way about my toaster 😉

[@slevinchannel7589]

@@darrellhardy3507 RANDOM, BUT: May i recommend some other science-channel, in an effort to spread joy and education and also battle anti-science? Or is this too random?

[@Dazzman07]

Hmmmm ... just kidding! Love science channels but I was trying to bring perspective with humour ie these are machines built for a purpose - levelling personalities on them is human but in reality it's a one way feeling - as much as I love my toaster it don't love me back - hence the wink emoji. Guess I missed the mark with you mate. All the best to you.

[@Deeplycloseted435]

When I was a boy, seeing the images of the Voyager probes blew me away. I think I still have newspapers with the Uranus and Neptune visits. It was quite an achievement for the 80’s.

[@williamhaynes4800]

I studied astronomy in college at the time the Voyagers encountered Jupiter. Our instructor was so excited as we watched the live feed from NASA on those now outdated computers. We also watched Dr. Carl Sagan's Cosmos. It was such a wonderful time to study astronomy. BTW, the images of Jupiter in Star Trek The Motion Picture were taken by Voyagers, but not 6. 😄

[@ItsShane79]

I like to think that one day, perhaps not for another few centuries, but eventually we'll have the capability of interstellar travel, and have like warp speed-capable ships like in Star Trek, and we'll be able to overtake and re-aquire both Voyagers. Could you even begin to imagine the historical value for people of lets say the 30th century to visit both the Voyager probes in a museum? It would be considered by the people of the future as the birth of space exploration, its like for us finding the first ever ship build by mankind at the bottom of the sea fully intact.

[@GhostX122]

Light speed travel will be real one day☝️

[@Axel-hr5kk]

@@GhostX122 even better is to discover a new way of traversing the space that is faster than speed of light

[@GhostX122]

@@Axel-hr5kk right and seeing things humanity never seen

[@indrajithak47]

@@Axel-hr5kk no object with mass can travel equal to or greater than the speed of light. That is the limit of the cosmos.

[@Axel-hr5kk]

@@indrajithak47 who knows. In the medieval era, quantum physics would be straight out of a crock pot's mouth.

[@shan.tanweer]

Not believing in the existence of Aliens is like taking a spoonful of water from an ocean and saying there is no shark in the ocean because there is none in my spoon.🙄🙄

[@renejean2523]

The analogy doesn't quite work because you already know about sharks, though the existence of aliens certainly cannot be dismissed. But believing there definitely ARE aliens is also a belief that cannot be justified, due to the lack of information.

[@renejean2523]

@B Fm - Well there's definitely evidence of life in the universe, but there's zero existence of any gods.

[@nathanmiller3182]

Space is so big even if they could travel to us it would take some many light years we probably wouldn't exist anymore

[@QuantumNaut]

If they could travel too us implies they would have more advanced technology and therefore they would have a method or speed of travel we don't.

[@mattsmith5421]

Dumb nonsensical analogy because you could repeat that for infinity and there will never be a shark in a tea spoon of water

[@michaelbruns449]

The immense distances between stars is virtually beyond our comprehension to even properly understand and trying to mentally visualize trillions of stars within billions of galaxies and all with vast distances between them, is a faith shattering and hope crushing affair indeed, just trying to accept this mind bending reality without denial, we are forced to face how unbelievably small we really are.

[@baischoice1743]

Well said

[@michaelbruns449]

@@baischoice1743 thanx...

[@kingcosworth2643]

Where does the universe reside, is it a finite entity positioned in something even bigger, and is that finite, or is the universe itself infinite??? What is matter, if matter is destroyed it sends a pulse of 'energy' through the fabric of space, the Aether if you will, why does any of it exist, where does it exist, how does it exist.

[@jiggag8223]

@@kingcosworth2643 it’s just way beyond our comprehension

[@leeturton9254]

And our time as individuals is but a wink of the eye.... time is the barrier that we will never overcome

[@nwabuezeozuzu6370]

Fun fact: Both voyager spacecrafts are still within the solar system at the time of this post. Shows how big space is, moving at such speed for so long and still have not left the solar system

[@nwabuezeozuzu6370]

@The Paradox Destroyer I define the solar system as anything within the boundaries of the Oort cloud ☁️

[@ooofsized2036]

I’m pretty sure voyager 1 is in deep space

[@SW-mv6fw]

My ex wife's backside is larger

[@Space-Audio]

They have both left the realm of Solar plasma and entered the realm of interstellar plasma. The heliopause is a decisive boundary. The Oort cloud has no decisive boundary and, literally, they will never be free of the gravitational influence of the Sun (or of any individual object in the entire universe).

[@gangadharreddyyerragudi4201]

Well there's no fun

[@karimamin2]

We should have launched a bunch of probes one after another where each one can talk to the next so they could pass message back even when they move out of range.

[@ALSILVERU2]

And the funding for both satellites almost aborted both missions

[@chosentonessournotes]

@@ALSILVERU2 Which is a shame. Because they’re going where we’ve never gone before!

[@ALSILVERU2]

@@chosentonessournotes Kinda at the last minute so to speak they decided to make 2 just in case to have a 5050 chance The original plan was launch a satellite in 50 yrs to make the planet alignments that would help the gravity slingshot boost to reach all the planets They 50 yr deadline was made adding another Voyager towards the end Not really certain of any success and tight funding Amazingly both Voyagers made off into infinity. Man could become extinct and these beauties will cont for thousands of years drifting until they crash are retrieved or decay fr radiation into dust well past 35,000 years #mostamazingaccomplishmentmankind

[@chosentonessournotes]

@@ALSILVERU2 That’s so cool man. I know of the Voyager disc… is it present on both Voyagers?

[@therev6689]

Yes

[@johnshields6852]

300,000 years to get to sirius , that's crazy, flying at incredible speed, the distances just don't compute to my brain, it's like counting grains of sands, so intimate.

[@renejean2523]

Intimate? Did you mean 'intimidating'?

[@marshmangunnar9150]

Unfathomable indeed, and I cannot remember if it was Carl Sagan or who, but someone said imagine the stars and there are more out there than there are for each grain of sand on every Beach on the planet earth.... uhhhhhhh.

[@renejean2523]

@@marshmangunnar9150 - I've never sat on a beach as I played with a handful of sand, and not thought about Carl Sagan saying that. And he said that before we discovered there may be somewhere between 2 and 20 TRILLION galaxies out there.

[@nathanielmikkie7171]

I once read an article stating that sirius travels towards earth at an approximate speed of 9 KM/sec, so one day Earth and it's inhabitants will face a serious trouble

[@olliebeak131]

@@renejean2523 probably meant *infinte*

[@mujexzilla]

The sad part is that to even have a chance at exploring our galaxy well need to come up with spacecraft that are capable of accelerating to AT LEAST 25% of the speed of light (~75 mil m/s). I really don't envy our scientists, they have their work cut out for them.

[@theforerunnerreclaimer]

At that point it would be on the level of time travel, time travel is theoretically possible

[@mauricioramirez9744]

Well put together. To know that there will be man-made objects flying through space that were operational during our lifetime thousands of years from now is something to be proud of as a species.

[@storms9023]

They’ll probably outlive us

[@MediaFaust]

Yes, at least we have that.

[@realozark2349]

OK, for the record, I'm not a super-Trekkie. However, don't discount the thin chance that one of the Pioneers could end up as a display in a museum belonging to another race. It could end up as proof of "Extra-Vulcan" life😊

[@shimronnetia]

very true

[@timmo971]

Or come back upgraded as a belligerent teenage god machine

[@realozark2349]

@@blokin5039 nope. Raised Baptist, but I don't identify with any organized religion. Just believe we are a creation of God, because the laws of thermodynamics don't allow for spontaneous generation of life.

[@robrussell5329]

Not sure about Pioneer, but neither Voyager will encounter another star system for 40,000 earth years. Let that roll around in your head for a while. Then, consider this: the chances of that star system having intelligent life is extremely remote. So then it's on to the next star system - perhaps another 40,000 earth years. And so on and so on... More likely it continues on its way for millions of years, possibly billions... basically... infinity.

[@n.g488]

Extra vulcan ? Wdym ozark ?

[@Despond]

Shout out to all the cameramen out in space and other stars taking all this footage.

[@ThatCasualZach]

Careful they will call you a flatearther if you question the cgi

[@ksnreddy2552]

@@ThatCasualZach lmao people like you should be left on venus

[@darkmatter1152]

@@ThatCasualZach don't worry flerfers have zero evidence to back there claims.

[@ThatCasualZach]

@@ksnreddy2552 if venus is real😉😉

[@ThatCasualZach]

@@darkmatter1152 *their claims😉😂

[@arklat]

I'm 66 now, but, when I was a kid, my dad moved from New Mexico, after working at Los Alamos, to Los Angeles, to work at JPL. He worked on both the Mariner and Voyager projects. After that, he retired after working his last years at Cal Tech.

[@TH-sn7mw]

My God that is fascinating,what a life he must have experienced .

[@arklat]

@@TH-sn7mw I think my favorite thing was the photo of him with Einstein at Los Alamos. Pretty awesome. He was also a combat veteran in WW2, wounded in action in Okinawa.

[@literallyanangrymoose7717]

Your father was a living part of history. You realize that, right?

[@arklat]

@@literallyanangrymoose7717 Yes, I do. I grew up during the height of the cold war. So, to me, he was more of a hero. And a great dad. I miss him. Thank you for your kind comment.

[@SachinSingh-jb7ok]

​@@arklathow old are you?

[@charlificity]

When I hear about the vastness of space, I can’t help but feel slightly frightened, overwhelmed but equally in awe. After all, where will humanity be in 30,000 years, if we exist at all. Perhaps these probes may be the final calling cards of the human race.

[@eyeswydeshut359]

If you like sci fi check out Warhammer 40k, it takes place 40,000 years in the future. Scary shit lol

[@scottymoondogjakubin4766]

the average person doesnt realize how painfully slow the speed of light is let alone 17 km/s but still intriguing to know they are the farthest objects made by man in existance

[@blakespower]

the average person doesnt know light has a speed

[@psyclotronxx3083]

So true

[@jordan5475]

Tbf how many people who can sprout the value of the speed of light actually understand how it was measured, or more accurately, how it wasnt measured. The theory behind it is equally important, if not more so, to the practical applications that likely wont exist for millenium.

[@phaedrussmith1949]

"how painfully slow the speed of light is" ??

[@fb6039]

@@phaedrussmith1949 It's slow compared to the cosmic scale , it takes as much as 4 years for light to reach the closest star to us

[@donaldomech5466]

Credits to the camera person filming these spacecraft from different angles even outside the ort cloud.

[@johnpacella9519]

Lol

[@BlueSkyCountry]

The Voyagers are not going to be traveling out there infinitely. When future manned spacecraft begin routinely cruising interstellar space, somebody is going to pick them up and bring them back to Earth where they will reside in a museum as monuments to humanity's early attempts at space travel.

[@louf7178]

Respectfully, I doubt that.

[@Nightweaver1]

If humanity can ever perfect the Alcubierre ("warp") drive sometime in the distant future, we may be able to recover them.

[@bdo333]

Anything could happen. I'm still amazed at the distanced they're traveling.

[@felipepineda1585]

They said us being capable of warp is essentially putting the energy of a star into an engine. No small easy feat

[@distantstorm1257]

The odds of either of the Voyagers being intercepted by another intelligent civilization are next to zero, and yet I can’t help but be both inspired and humbled at the thought of these two fragile, cosmically minuscule creations of our curiousity, hurtling through the endlessly vast expanse. Out there, in the fathomless void, farther than anything else made by human hands, are these ambassadors of our tiny blue world, carrying with them the best of humanity’s achievements and intentions- our sense of wonder, our quest for knowledge, examples of the beauty we are capable of. Neither craft aware of our current civil strife, or of the growing natural peril we bring upon ourselves through our own short sided, selfish actions. One day, they may be all that remains of us, as a species. Two Golden Records, inscribed with the essence of the human race, distilled down to its purest virtues. Out there, glittering in the black. I almost envy them.

[@ryans6280]

Wow I never thought about that, that they may be the only things left representing humanity and the earth one day 😮😪

[@benwesley5260]

Every year, about 5 or 6 different channels cover this. That’s still not enough ground to cover on how much space they have seen. I can’t imagine how eerily quite and lonely it is out there for them. Pushing on for humanity knowing that most have forgotten about you. Thank you Voyagers for pushing on for us! You’ll see a friend in about 30,000 years, but don’t dwell on time, just enjoy the view 😎

[@robertramsey653]

That's roughly 8 and a half miles per second for new horizons and 10 and a half miles per second for Voyager! That is just incredible! I cant even imagine that. I know there are things that travel much faster than that, but I'm talking about something man made.

[@paulwoodford6229]

Makes you think how it can stay together at that speed

[@zKsery]

@@paulwoodford6229 well theres not much air in space so it wouldn't feel any wind on it trying to tear it apart.

[@handsomesquidward151]

@@paulwoodford6229 cos theres no air resistance in space. duh

[@paulwoodford6229]

@@handsomesquidward151 Aren't you are a clever little girl. Don't say duh, when you write "Cos."

[@bannedagain8123]

@@paulwoodford6229 no you just not all the way there in the head who doesn’t know that I’ve known that without having to have someone tell me if your weightless in space with nothing stoping you from slowing down it’s just like a ballon going floating in the air it stays the same speed the whole time cuz it’s weightless come on I refuse to believe you didn’t know that

[@FunnyVideos-qe7xh]

Here I'm watching this video about space, awestruck by it's vastness and that's when KZbin ad appears ruining it.

[@mth469]

Someone has to pay the bills.

[@bradfordhatch5085]

9:23 - Voyager will fly by Gliese 445 at a distance of 1.6 light years in about 40,000 years time. This is correct, but your chart shows something you verbally failed to point out. G 445 is actually about 17 light years away *currently*. It is also approaching the sun however (moving several times faster than Voyager is), so when Voyager passes it G 445 will be about the distance shown; which is closer than Proxima Centauri is now. Leaving that part out of your spoken dialog may be confusing to some people, who may not know G 445 will come that close by then, so i felt I needed to clear that up. Same btw with Voyager 2 passing Ross 248; also with 4 ly of the sun at that point.

[@philipbrandt5852]

40,000 years ago cave art will we make another 40,000?

[@mudimabiriani6467]

Dont bother After 4000 light Years Voyager 1 will be in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

[@bradfordhatch5085]

@@mudimabiriani6467 ??? Wut???

[@ignaciomartinchiaravalle]

Thanks a lot, bro! I came to the comment section looking for some clarification exactly on that statement :)

[@bradfordhatch5085]

@@ignaciomartinchiaravalle You're welcome. :-)

[@DarthTrader707]

I have this crazy "vision" that hundreds of years from now, there will be tourist packages where people take trips to take a look at Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 flying through space.

[@mth469]

I think you will be right.

[@JohnCompton1]

Absolutely EPIC! So well researched and presented.

[@regularguy2470]

I talk to planets baby!

[@JohnCompton1]

@@regularguy2470 The Master of Light I presume?

[@bobvanderwest9358]

There's something profoundly sad about these craft eventually being worn down by radioactive rays and cosmic dust into threadbare debris scattered across the depths of the universe without a trace.

[@AndreTKemp]

Very well produced! The quality of your videos is very high, you should be very proud 😎 Thanks for the upload, I learnt a lot and loved every minute of it 😌

[@WeedShaggy]

The travelers of space Pioneer 10 Pioneer 11 Voyager 1 Voyager 2 New Horizons & The Cameraman

[@wallywibbly250]

You're not allowed to assume genders anymore

[@davidellis279]

I’m always amazed that these machines could have travelled these unbelievable distances without hitting anything like a lump of space rock or anything else that’s floating out there, it’s seems unbelievable that they are going to travel further and further away from earth,something or someone will eventually come across these machines travelling across the vastness of space. It would be nice to see the eventual end of them whenever that happens,it would be unbelievable if they ever found their way back in the distant future,we would probably think it was something attacking us and destroy it before they realised what it was hurtling towards us,that’s if the world lasts that long and we haven’t destroyed it with atomic weapons.

[@scubasteve7303]

This is mind blowing! Even more incredible is Seattle didn’t run the ball.

[@TheOnlyBigRig]

Credits to the cameraman who followed all those probs to give us this amazing content

[@kotosqoposrly]

I really, really LOOOOVED the way the spacecrafts were introduced!

[@cosmic2096]

Thank you . Talking about the universe just fascinates me. Thinking about these two robotic(alien) interstellar console my soul.

[@tariqtaulib5338]

OK

[@eskanderx1027]

Great production level! 👏🏼 This channel should have 1M subs, hope you reach that ASAP.

[@GosuVu]

How this hasn't gotten more views yet is beyond me. Incredible, well done.

[@slevinchannel7589]

Yeah, but Collabs could still make the channel grow, cause thats what Collabs do.

[@sportsretrospective6759]

Great job Kosmo! I've always the same feeling after watching that kind of documentary: I realise how small we are.

[@mdtalhaansari1096]

Centuries later: A Federation starship encounters a mysterious alien entity that calls itself Vger and wants to merge with humanity. All seems lost when another mysterious entity, one that calls itself Pneer, comes to the rescue.

[@ericdunn360]

What about N'zions?

[@marshmangunnar9150]

Us... we.... as humans will be long gone by the time ANY evidence of us is found.... ah.... melancholy

[@nickwilde748]

Man I’ve watched and learned a lot about these spacecrafts, but that was really cool! Awesome visuals, love the detail and left a lot of pondering that normally I didn’t get otherwise

[@Lawliet...]

I'd like to believe that humanity will advance so much that one day we will be able to pick up all these space probes and put them on display in some futuristic museum. Well, wishful thinking I know but its still a nice dream to have.

[@theeaskey]

Wouldn't it be a bitch if they showed up on our doorstep proving the universe is itself a giant ball.

[@DevilNiZ]

Space exploration has made us love The Voyagers so much. ❤️

[@slevinchannel7589]

RANDOM, BUT: May i recommend some other science-channel, in an effort to spread joy and education and also battle anti-science? Or is this too random?

[@charleshines2506]

With them starting to go out of range, some sort of repeater for their data would seem to be a good idea. That would stay in one general area and relay the data back so we may still get it. It would be interesting to see what they may be seeing out there.

[@h.dejong2531]

Our current antennas are capable of communicating with the Voyagers until 2050 at least, so that's not a limiting factor. It's much easier and cheaper to build a large antenna here on Earth (we use 70-meter dish antennas) than to launch such a large antenna into space.

[@masamune..]

Wow the production value is amazing. The content stellar. Subscribed!

[@David_P132]

Stellar . . . I see what you did there.

[@masamune..]

@@David_P132 good eye ;)

[@clausstudioproduction]

Kudos to the cameraman who taking picture of the crafts

[@adrianmetzler2523]

So cool how we “beam” images back to earth. Gives a cool star trek feel.

[@nikkeirwin1910]

There's a lot to be said for the Voyager team and 70's technology. Both Voyager's completed their missions and still continue to transmit. Absolutely amazing! With that said, I'm seriously disappointed with New Horizons. Though it completed its mission, it will never come close to anything Voyager has done and is still doing. I expected better from newer technology.

[@beta_cygni1950]

Really? New Horizons did just fine. It just didn't have the benefit of a once-in-a-lifetime multi-planetary alignment that only occurs every 175 years, like the Voyager spacecraft took advantage of. --------------------------------- Edit: Besides, N.H's main goal was always Pluto & Kuiper objects. Mission accomplished. Saturn & Jupiter each got their very own missions (Cassini and Juno, respectively).

[@Duececoupe]

Maaaaan.... I just love this channel! I could watch or listen (while chilling out) to it for hours.... Keep up the phenomenal work.... I'm eagerly awaiting for more excellent videos! 👍🏻👌🏻👏🏻🏆🥇

[@montewoods2389]

I have been a lover of astronomy for years but this program has taught me more in a single watching than previous text books from my childhood.

[@allaboutfacts2.043]

This is insane, it's crazy to think how small we really are.

[@rogueish28]

I bet there is a lot of stuff that we don't know about that the voyagers have discovered as well... It's still fascinating....

[@kartik_singhhhh03]

Yeah you right!

[@darkmatter1152]

@B Fm stop believing in debunked conspiracy theories with zero evidence to back up your claims 🤪 🙄 🙄 🙄. Please take your meds

[@kevanhubbard9673]

There's other bit's and pieces from the Pioneers and Voyagers, guessing New Horizons too, exiting the solar system.The first 4 had huge counterweights to make them spin and they separated but are enroute out of the Sun system separate from the probes they span.Some of the rocket boosters are on their way too.

[@Firefox13A]

I love the part around 12:00 speculating about future generations of humanity one day recovering old probes. That would be something.

[@pavel9652]

In future we will have to protect the Moon landing site from pato-streamaers ;)

[@seekter-kafa]

i was born the very day voyager one started its journey; mission duration 45 years, 2 months, 22 days elapsed

[@lezzatltd]

This is awesome! Thank you for the amazing graphics!! How about satellites to look forward to? Is human kind preparing to launch the next Voyager mission? A super speedy satellite to reach outer space?

[@ALSILVERU2]

All I saw were graphics art animation was there not one genuine video clip or photo 🤔

[@redvanderbilt289]

Nano satellites

[@Feelin2nice]

Well done. I'm glad I subscribed. Look forward to the next one.

[@bravo-93]

I’m confident we will pick them up at some point in the future

[@mth469]

I hope not. That would ruin their intended destiny to fly to the end of the Universe long after we are gone

[@tommy-er6hh]

Nice, but nothing about the solar system terminus, the SS bow shock, or the Local Cloud nebula & interstellar medium they are now going thru? This video is seems to miss the info from the last few years - is it an older one reshown?

[@sentientflower7891]

Those other things aren't accessible at the time scale discussed in the video. Space is large!

[@tommy-er6hh]

@@sentientflower7891 All the things i mentioned have already been found, and most of them Voyager 1 & 2 have gone thru in the last years. That is my point, it seems like the video, good as it is, is a couple years out of date.

[@sentientflower7891]

@@tommy-er6hh they have gone through? The Voyagers haven't even reached the Oort Cloud.

[@tommy-er6hh]

@@sentientflower7891 true, but the Terminus shock, the Heliosphere and the Bow shock are NOT in the Oort. It turns out those are in the Scattered Disk zone which the Voyagers ARE going thru, BEFORE the still theoretical Oort Cloud (still not verified) and AFTER the Kuiper Belt, to the surprise of many scientists. All that and the Voyagers are in the direction the Sun is spinning around the galaxy (spinward), but to the sides and behind (antispinward) there is a longer, wider "wake" in which the Heliosphere goes out into the theoretical Oort. We do not know if the "wake" has a bow shock also. This all came out in the last few years, which is why the video seems old data.

[@lsudx479]

Much respect to the cameramen that went all the way out there to get footage of the two voyagers.

[@MrBlazer3585]

Awesome video! That's probably is the best space documentary I've seen.

[@ianboelts]

i love watching videos like these!! subscribed. i'd never even heard of the "Heliopause" until today tbh

[@khumokwezimashapa2245]

Could you please make a video about what life would look like on other planets? I've always wondered if planets with less gravity and bigger oceans could host massive sea creatures that dwarf whales

[@Kosmo_off]

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[@khumokwezimashapa2245]

@@Kosmo_off Thank you

[@dr4d1s]

Check out Melody sheep's channel. They have a couple videos that cover that topic

[@LS-Moto]

@@khumokwezimashapa2245 I think what life would look like elsewhere is as of now, just a science fiction imagination. We don't know any other life forms other than ourselves. We know what kind of environment we need in order to survive. What we don't know, are perhaps other circumstances (which would be lethal to us) which also could hold a different form of life - one that we are not familiar with.

[@loislane2265]

Makes our planet seem like a needle in a haystack when you try to understand just how big our universe really is…

[@jayxhuit6000]

Smaller even, like the quarks of said needle.

[@adeptusmechanicus1029]

A speck of dust in all the sands of the world combined

[@slevinchannel7589]

RANDOM, BUT: May i recommend some other science-channel, in an effort to spread joy and education and also battle anti-science? Or is this too random?

[@loislane2265]

@@slevinchannel7589 it’s a perfect recommendation thank you 🧐

[@AstronoZiller]

Awesome contents, and spectacular animation! Thx for the good quality content!

[@kdot8340]

I've always wondered this and Googled it but never had a visual representation of it to see! Thanks!

[@wallywibbly250]

Try a different search engine

[@maurizioibba869]

Beautiful, this video is not only technically very informative but also very emotional, I been following the voyagers journey since I was a kid, specially Voyager 2 which is flying on the Southern Skies, so is mind blowing to think that we became an interstellar specie thanks to these probes. Thanks Sergey great video.

[@MulToyVerse]

Wait! Wolf 359 actually exists?. I thought that was a place on Star Trek!

[@jamessullivan4391]

Yes it does now Let’s go Brandon!

[@MulToyVerse]

@@jamessullivan4391 Let's go Brandon!

[@INGBWLer]

Thank you for this well done documentation!

[@KeokiDude]

Wow, very informative and well made- thanks.

[@davidarbuckle7236]

So incredible. The voyagers were launched in 1977? And they are still operating???

[@GhostX122]

So crazy how we think we are alone and lonely when these voyagers been out since 77 alone in space…

[@darkmatter1152]

Thx to nuclear 🔋 but they be permanently dead soon.

[@darkmatter1152]

@B Fm because of technology it can be done. 🌎 Is round and spinning all proven facts and space is real and endless universe.

[@lovethatforme]

I imagine some advance race discovering the voyagers and think how primitive the item is. Yet, we're out here. The voyager even if its get shatters and in pieces, will be part of humanity's legacy, our legacy. How we were so different, different races, different beliefs and cultures, yet we all loved, dreamed and hoped. I hope they can one day they see that. Even if all they find is a piece of metal. I hope they see that we are a story worth telling.

[@alanmusicman3385]

Great video - fascinating to hear the details of these incredible distances and accomplishments!. Nice synthetic voice on this - what system do you use?

[@itamarzamir3908]

Once again, top quality throughout this excellent video. One of the very best youtube channels.

[@SeamusMcGillicuddy0]

Just imagine the frequent flyer miles these craft are accumulating !🤭

[@wallywibbly250]

Thanks for my daily reminder that science and humour don't go well together

[@SeamusMcGillicuddy0]

@@wallywibbly250 KMA & GFY !

[@Desi_Nehra]

@@SeamusMcGillicuddy0 😂👍🏼

[@tyrannicaltypomichaeltester]

Next we should strap all politicians to probes as Inter planetary diplomats and send them far far away. OT Our probes should get better and faster

[@DamonNomad82]

Just have them give their long-winded speeches into a hot air powered generator, and the probes will keep going forever!

[@ThatsBitchassness]

Imagine trying to slingshot a space probe around a flat earth🤣🤣

[@bizzlea887]

Your videos are always extremely interesting and informative! Thank you

[@joewilson2258]

The more we think we know the more we don't . We are like a first grader yearning to learn more about just our little planetary system let alone the vastness of the galactic system . Yet here is something we still don't have a full understand of and that is our planet .

[@ManDyter]

It's exciting to think there are lifeforms out there who are debating about a possible us, while we remain a mystery towards each other prob forever. There may be so much more earth like planets with lifeforms but unable to reach each other because of the sheer size of the universe.

[@Cassini-Huygens]

Thank you for the amazing video!. I love having news on what I usually call baby1 and baby2. I often check on them on NASA's dedicated site and it's always a joy

[@ashclub1]

This is just astonishing. Jaw dropping content and great imagery.

[@brianthesnail3815]

I just watched an aging actor blasted to the edge of space in a capsule and float down again on a parachute. The Voyagers are what space exploration is all about not tourist jaunts on a toy rocket. I wonder what will happen when they exit our solar system and what the beings that find them will think. I love science fiction so that is an exciting thought.

[@dennycrane6253]

Shatner deserved to go

[@ThatCasualZach]

When the figure out how to deal with radiation maybe. Until then there is no tech or people in space

[@niggacockball7995]

@@ThatCasualZach we cant even go to mars if we dont deal with radiation

[@darian6423]

The fact that it takes over 30,000 years just to leave our solar system to the nearest star tells me that there’s definitely no way aliens are contacting us.

[@Bhamloud47]

You’re thinking in terms of our current technology though. Just two hundred years ago, speeds faster than animals could run seemed unrealistic to the masses. Certainly the jets that move several times the speed of sound we’re not even dreamed of. Interstellar travel may be impossible. There may be a technology that makes it trivial though.

[@darian6423]

@@Bhamloud47 Even at the speed of light (which logically speaking, is impossible for any man-made space craft to achieve), it still takes 4 years to get the nearest star. And if we wanted to leave the galaxy, that would take 100,000 years at the speed of light. Interstellar travel will never be a possibility unless we somehow figure out a way to create wormholes to instantly take us from one part of the universe to another. But until then, we’re sitting ducks.

[@Bhamloud47]

That was my point. With current technology it seems impossible, but we’re doing things today thought to be impossible just a couple of hundred years back. Alien races could be billions of years of evolution ahead of us and making trips of thousands of light years could be as trivial as us boarding a jet and flying to Paris.

[@teapot_]

@@darian6423 yes you are right. But it's not just the speed to get anywhere that restricts us, and any other being traveling interstellar. It's the resources and radiation that's going to probably prove insurmountable no matter what technology is realised.

[@Scion141]

@@Bhamloud47 Lol. Being realistic a bit, some of these limitations exist because of the laws of the universe. What you're comparing, is basically apples and oranges. Sometimes, there's no mysterious, future technology that will save us. Science fiction and our imagination allows us to imagine anything, but the reality is that even technology has its limits, add to that the limits the universe itself places on us... Unless we discover worm hole technology, even that is a stretch, the most realistic thing is traveling to planets and moons in our solar system. Forget about sending people to other star systems within a human lifetime. If would take many generations of people, assuming nothing goes wrong, to just get there

[@marinduqueadventurechannel3493]

i always watch these videos until i got sleep. Thank you

[@jeremysart]

Absolutely fantastic video!

[@UtraVioletDreams]

To bad all these probes battery's died or almost died out. Would it not be great if we are able to monitor interstellar space,

[@TheLastStarfighter77]

Always a pleasure to watch your videos Kosmo, Voyager 1 was launched on my birth year so easy to remember, I find it fascinating that one day and perhaps in my lifetime that we might have an advanced enough space craft to catch up and collect the Golden record, one may laugh at this but fusion reactors are not that far away.

[@Jay-hd4jx]

1977 is my birth year as well, but I highly doubt anything will be created during our life times with the ability to catch up with the Voyager probes.

[@philipnorris6542]

All absolutely amazing stuff; when we look up at the stars we still feel the wonder that the first men felt.

[@psyclotronxx3083]

It's incomprehensible to imagine the distances between stars. We're alone and always will be

[@rogueish28]

We are not alone, not in the universe, it's way too massive for it to just be us...

[@wakingforbacon6439]

@@rogueish28 exactly there are too many other planets around stars in the great space for their not to be other life forms. I mean we came to be so why would anyone think that another planet didn't create life also. There has to be other life in space. It's too massive for there not to be. If there on our level or maybe a little behind ours or ahead some they probably still haven't figured out interstellar travel either. Not easy to figure out how to keep a human alive long enough to fly to another galaxy. So undoubtedly if there is life on other planets they haven't figured it out yet either.

[@pavel9652]

A monkey marooned on the island somewhere in the middle of the Pacific ocean though the same ;)

[@pavel9652]

That is brilliant, kiddo. Better tell us why your god designed leukaemia?