Will Voyager 1 LEAVE Our Milky Way Galaxy?

When will Voyager 1 leave our Milky Way Galaxy?
Voyager 1 was launched by NASA on September 5, 1977 and made flybys of Jupiter, Saturn.
It's currently traveling at a speed of 10.5 (16.9 km) per second away from our solar system.
But it will never be able to escape the Milky Way. Voyager 1 would need to get up to a speed of 341 miles (550 km) per second to leave.
The spacecraft will orbit the center of the Milky Way Galaxy until it collides with something or disintegrates. And if the spacecraft survives long enough, 500 million years from now, it will complete a full orbit through the Milky Way.
#astronomy​​​ #astrophotography

[@ChucksAstrophotography]

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[@NoPulseForRussians]

My day is incomplete until I see one of your awesome short vids. Thanks for your dedication to making so many of us space fans happy. 👌🏻

[@Cole-jb5ip]

I absolutely love your video shorts. They are always informative. 😎🇺🇦

[@charleswhitefullbusteruchi1972]

what's the bgm's name?

[@michellejohnson6035]

Its excellent and I love it. Xx

[@HKsNoble45]

Why does it have to reach that speed in order to leave the milky way?

[@MeaqUig]

The music makes everything ten times sadder

[@Bigpapimufasa2]

Name of the song

[@stifler4eva1]

Don't be sad. Imagine if voyager 1 or 2 gets into a wormhole or may be some aliens find it in our galaxy itself

[@FeddyFezberPlaysGD]

I no

[@shruthikumarkamal9893]

😭😭😭😭

[@shruthikumarkamal9893]

@@stifler4eva1 Humans won't believe in their eyes 🤣🤣

[@georginacox7292]

Gosh It's been there since I was 19 or 20. I am 64 now.

[@georginacox7292]

Yes

[@HAX_1]

Damn

[@georginacox7292]

@@HAX_1 You Tube still reporting on them both still a year and half later

[@STRIDER.22]

​@@Smoovs1956 u call him bro. 😢

[@awakenedhigherself9961]

@@STRIDER.22😂😂

[@rayfultz3286]

Wow I'm so impressed with Voyager 1!! It has done so so much and went so much further that anyone thought!!👍😎

[@ChucksAstrophotography]

Right, and now it's on its way to the Oort Cloud.

[@shekhkhalid7693]

@@ChucksAstrophotography humans won't be alive to watch the voyager pass the milky way 😭

[@Andro.d]

@@shekhkhalid7693 2050: Become Robot

[@shekhkhalid7693]

@@Andro.d ohh yeah

[@Fibberous_II]

now we have voyager 5

[@pairpunchgaming1394]

"It is possible it will continue its journey long after the human race has vanished" That gave me chills

[@rishav144]

human race will end in 2059 during the massive asteroid attack

[@pairpunchgaming1394]

@@rishav144 nah we’ll die off in 2523 from human stupidity

[@sambitkumar7185]

Yaa without a doubt....we are destroying the things which gave us life....and we dumb humans thinking we are developing doing that

[@marashdemnika5833]

It didn’t give me chills because it not gonna happened

[@i.noonespinzps0218]

If you ever die Voyager 1, we all respect you 😭 💥🛰️💥

[@anshushukla5179]

Voyager 1 and 2 are alone in dark space how long he's felling sadly they also not leave us but mission is mission =( 😞

[@cecilarthur3579]

Sry but im about to ruin the mood Its not alive 😐

[@raccoon6072]

No, you will die first.

[@Savage_00]

We will die before them

[@i.noonespinzps0218]

@@Savage_00 thats true, we will never know

[@nobodygrinder5667]

Can you imagine being that far away from earth? I have had nightmares of that..

[@macadoua4847]

Imagine a day when you live, "Just across the galaxy." That's part of what makes marvel movies feel warmer; it doesn't give you a true perspective of the vastness of space.

[@Ariel1039]

More like dreams

[@divyanshsharma5228]

Its just a machine bro

[@nobodygrinder5667]

@@divyanshsharma5228 yes, I know

[@deadlybunz]

Basically autophobia

[@DerpyUniverse]

“It is possible they will both continue their journey long after the human race has vanished” that hit hard

[@raineanliemalajacan9953]

But I think it's true

[@mysterioushd3182]

@@raineanliemalajacan9953 it is true

[@alexanderjordan1565]

@@raineanliemalajacan9953 it will happen one day..

[@musicdilse7914]

Yes it is

[@cutieivy]

​@@mysterioushd3182 yeah it would but probably no in the future i think there will be technology to make humans live forever or longer (but for safety of they committed murder they will expload) but who knows at any moment (in the future) human race will vanish

[@hissss3628]

How is that thing even transmiting data to earth??? My phone can't even get good signal in the basement!!

[@vsid.mp4]

funny

[@Dixiegnome]

If your phone was designed my nasa scientists and was the size of a motorbike.....

[@karansedai5603]

"The goal is not to survive forever , but to create something that will"

[@Fantasymaplover]

It feels sad

[@anilwadekarpranavwadekar2944]

These two brothers are real legend of space exploration.

[@ee_fa_21]

Fr

[@Dixiegnome]

Imagine humans making a probe with a pic of rick astley on it and sending it to space (designed in a way that it wont get destroyed for billions of years) And humans go extinct Then aliens find our probe and think theres another intelligent space civilisation They got rick rolled + they will keep looking for us but wont find

[@vsid.mp4]

beluga videos be like

[@ryacorn126]

The ultimate troll

[@mr.ackermann5587]

I don't know what to think of this comment...

[@contribonx979]

They wouldn't even know what Rick roll is and Don't even know what is the picture

[@whi2gan]

Think I just lost a braincell😵🧠

[@raniversario16]

Imagine travelling and never to be able to come home 😢

[@raccoon6072]

There is a slight change it will return home. After 500 million years it will complete a full orbit through the milky-way

[@abdullahal-shimri3091]

Jesus would have returned by then.

[@AdnanKhan-xq4kh]

Voyager 1, this planet will always be indebted to you mate, thank you for your service!

[@ramyg5037]

I forgot about the gravitational pull of the milky way... I thought it would eventually leave the MW ...some million years from now

[@Evanw10282]

@Nad Senoj 130,000 THOUSAND LIGHT YEARS

[@um.pa.s.s.a.3043]

10.5 miles per... hour. SECOND 😳

[@shashidharshettar3846]

In 1977 I finished my medical college and now I’m 69 yrs old and retired BUT Voyager 1 is still ticking on

[@Onetruenugget]

If voyager one ever gets to that speed to escape the milky way, with my calculations it will take more than 361,787,016 years to leave the milky way, if voyager 2 also gets as fast as the escape velocity of the milky too then it will take more than 388,451,261 years to leave the milky way galaxy.

[@andringoaskabar1968]

There isn't a 27 million year difference between the two....

[@sldwnr98]

@@andringoaskabar1968 no shit, that's not the only factor

[@andringoaskabar1968]

@@sldwnr98 is his comment a joke or what cause i had 17 strokes after reading that paragraph of weird mistakes lol

[@sldwnr98]

@@andringoaskabar1968 Well I assume there are multiple factors, but I could definitely be wrong.

[@generaleerelativity9524]

We're gonna need one of those _Fact-Checkers_ for this one. Someone far less intelligent yet far more believable simply because I'm far too lazy to check the math

[@godfather333]

Why do u put such emotional background music I was actually feeling sad for a non living spacecraft 😂

[@Amkenji123]

Loo

[@Amkenji123]

Lol same

[@kerimfenasi6009]

Probably because you know even if its not alive its working for the human race to collect info.

[@BlixYTube]

​@@Amkenji123editing comments exists you don't have to retype the comment

[@titanicgaming1148]

I kinda like the idea of voyager 1 surviving, even if it outlives us all. It still carries a disk of us for the universe to see no matter what happens to us.

[@carramboardlover938]

😐😊

[@Foz_editz156]

"It's possible they will both continue their journey " make me cry

[@pongkittikhun9603]

Is Milky way expanding? If so Maybe the Voyager will never escape.

[@rustyshackleford9888]

No, the expansion of the universe cannot overcome the force of gravity at the scale of our galaxy and the other galaxies belonging to our Local Group, including Andromeda (hence why Andromeda and the Milky Way are in the process of colliding with each other, rather than expanding away from each other).

[@vexerta]

Imagine how cool would it be if someone hundreds of thousands of years from now humanity comes into physical contact with it.

[@kelvisshandei]

Voyager is in space, since my mom is born in 1977 And its a very very very very very very very very very very very small number in compare,to the universe.

[@maxtv333thesuperstar3]

Same my mom and dad were both born on that year

[@damilareadeesan1477]

You should add about 15 more verys

[@kelvisshandei]

@@damilareadeesan1477 not even that would be enough

[@ykai6487]

Congrats, you have a hippie era grandparent.

[@kelvisshandei]

@@ykai6487 true my grandparents (motherside) are or were very open. My grandfather has alot of womans ,still a playboy. And my grandmother was a rebell. The most beautiful woman in town ,my mother told me.

[@SimonsAstro]

Very interesting Chuck! Amazing to think that our technology is still fly through space out there somewhere!

[@ChucksAstrophotography]

Thanks Simon!

[@burntspud7466]

Imagine in 500 million years we just see Voyager 1 slowly floating towards us

[@Vicioussnakeboy]

Someone in 500 mil years: "Yo I just found this thing approaching us"

[@gamers-xh3uc]

@@Vicioussnakeboy they will think aliens made it

[@iamdarkphantom]

​@@gamers-xh3ucvoyger 1 has information about the planet earth so i think we in the 500 mil years in the future should be able to decipher it and would be amazed to see and learn their ancestors made that 500 mil years ago

[@codymoe4986]

If we're still around in 500 million years, I think we'll be a bit too overwhelmed by our expanding Sun to notice..

[@paulapridy6804]

It was exciting back when that was launched. But I don't remember considering its final days. As ever, I enjoy the factoids you put together🙂

[@kylegoodall6118]

Space is beautiful but terrifying

[@jackburnell3209]

The vastness of the universe is amazing. And when you consider that it's just a tiny bubble inside or beside uncountable other universes or dimensions it's really amazing.

[@roymccloure7391]

I know we would love to know what is outside of our universe is it more universes or does this universe go on forever

[@jackburnell3209]

@@roymccloure7391 That's a big question. Pun intended. Im not an astrophysicist, but from my limited understanding, space and time could not have existed prior to the big bang according to the big bang theory and Einstein's special theory of relativity. So from nothing to infinity, in the scales of time and space, was nothing at all. If the big bang created space, and therefore time, there can be no "space" (outside) the expanding boundary of our known universe. By that theory, it has to created as it goes. I personally feel that our observable universe is like a bubble expanding in water, where the water is one instance of many different dimensions. And I think the connection between the different dimensions are quantum fields. Photons, radio, magnetism and things like quantum particles that pop in and out of even a vacuum from apparently nowhere travel in fields, some that cross dimensions. So, I think this universe is one of many that are creating space and where all time is a singular point.

[@milojohnson6068]

Fake science is the best science amirite?

[@jackburnell3209]

@@milojohnson6068 Scientifically, the nature of space and dimensions is unanswered. That being the case, I'll go with the string theory crowd who say multiple dimensions and whose math supports it to 14 decimal places of accuracy.

[@dr.calebrobbins.3177]

@@jackburnell3209 Yr comment blasted all our other comments right out of my head through my screen with such a frightening velocity I've found myself floating into a place no man , woman should even think of daring to go. All things in their own good time. Let's just clean up our own place before even consulting those shiny brochures about places we'll never have the time nor money to go , ; no point in going if there ain't nobody to tell when or even if we get HOME.

[@Monkey_Luffy01]

The song 🥲😢😥😭

[@willygonutz9687]

Love your content mate, VERY interesting stuff👍

[@metalmachine4433]

Man, that song is 10 times more emotional than the whole titanic movie

[@___________broom4]

These videos are so relaxing

[@soulboxer999]

In future we might be able to track milky way 🥺

[@DarkMatterX1]

Both Voyager 1 & 2 have left the solar system, and are currently travelling interstellar space. That's actually mindblowing, the fact that theres 2 manmade probes now exploring the distance between the stars.

[@patrickpilkington3220]

Neither of them have left the solar system! It's going to take them 10s of thousands of years to reach the oort cloud.😊

[@rickchin8995]

I'm no science guy so....but how do these stay powered to be traveling & sending data?

[@pagan95]

Go lil fella you and your faint bleeps , truly amazing it’s been going my entire life I’m just lil older than voyager . Don’t say collide it might hear you

[@probablygeorge6489]

You die twice. First when your pulse stops, second when you're thought of for the last time. It's the 2nd death I really fear

[@nathanjones411]

You actually die 3 times, First when your heart dies. Second, the last time your name is said. Third is the last time someone looks at a photo of you

[@probablygeorge6489]

@@nathanjones411 Those last two still fit under "thought of." Shorter quotes are better. Easier to remember

[@textandtelescope8199]

We all know that it will be discovered by the robot planet and head back this way to cleanse all of the carbon based units.

[@envisionCamusa]

Any society advanced enough to encounter it would easily figure out where we are.

[@awake2945]

LMAO!! V-GER LIVES! IT MUST JOIN THE CREATOR!

[@desk2307]

Amazing perspective. Thank God I have kitty.

[@YogsenForfoth]

Kitty is important for science.

[@nandhakumarsomanathan5528]

Human race never vanish

[@mrsherlock4182]

Although its 23.000.000.000 kilometers away after 45 years of Journey , a Photon would catch Up in less then a day😨

[@mkpinganYT]

Its still really far to imagine , photon takes 1.5 seconds to get to moon , and its taking a day to reach there

[@jupiter776]

Thank you for giving me an existential crisis again.

[@shannataylor9052]

God that's beautiful!

[@rebeccagirdzus5461]

Wow, that's just so amazing 👏 ❣ Thank you again for sharing. This is so interesting!!

[@AshokNr-y5b]

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[@Dudemon-1]

It's amazing to me that matter with so much space between entities has that much gravitational force!

[@timohara7717]

Um.. I thinl the supermassive black hole pays a large part

[@MrMegaMetroid]

@@timohara7717 actually not all that much. We dont orbit the black hole, we orbit the collective masses of the stars in the center. Alot of galaxies dont even have a super massive black hole in its center. You give black holes more credit than they deserve. They are strong locally, but not nearly enough to matter at all on those distances

[@timohara7717]

@@MrMegaMetroid actually theres somthing massive that makes clutsters of things orbit glaxies thats why spiral ones exist

[@holywells]

LOL...."after the human race has vanished"....?? Who made that prediction??

[@alexandrabyrd3875]

You are so amazing 💖 love the information!

[@APBCTechnique]

331,128,000 miles per year traveling at 10.5 miles per second. 100 years 33,112,800,000 miles - thirty-three billion one hundred twelve million eight hundred thousand miles

[@-qwerty-4422]

amazing!

[@casperlokz8348]

That’s soo crazy I’m interested 100 x more now lol

[@marvinho6403]

Damn that's depressing

[@budwardplayz1792]

You do know voyager 1 is traveling up to speeds of 60,000 something Kilometers per second

[@uk6728]

Ur explanation took this voyager into another level 🙁

[@taufanandriansyah7174]

Voyyage, small lup big lup big lup big lup small lup small lup big lup Exsperiment

[@shawndouglass2939]

Always learn something new on your channel, thank you 😊

[@alokkumarmaharana7612]

Voyager 1/2 : Earth i found some alien ships in a far planet Voyager 1/2 : Earth i am leaving the Milky way galaxy This two messages has its own meaning

[@elladoz1966]

Thanks for sharing ☺️

[@greenlantern1123]

The scale of the universe is mind boggling … 500 million years for an orbit of the Milky Way. Which is small compared to the andromeda galaxy. Which is one of billions of galaxies… just in comprehensible .

[@Johia_Mapping_2]

Whats the song? :)

[@erikramaekers63]

In a 100 years from now Voyager 1 and 2 will be nothing more than space junk.

[@terrialdrich9477]

Chuck, I love this channel SO MUCH! TY for all you give us ❤

[@thecringeemperor]

Billion years as the Earth is destroyed and humanity is gone forever baby aliens could find out Voyager 1 and 2 and they could restart the human race the voyagers are the only pieces of humanity currently

[@michaelelston8857]

I know its a machine....but its sad how lonely that would be....

[@keannix]

So the cameraman probably lives in the voyager 1?

[@Phillip713]

So I know we will never go get voyager but my question is could we do it? If we decided today that we wanted to bring it back for whatever reason could we figure a way to do it

[@thesuperduperstar]

I wish vayager finds another planet another species, what great news it will be to know we arent alone

[@santonen359]

It is expected to reach proxima centauri thousand of years

[@dr.calebrobbins.3177]

500000000 yrs from NOW ... Those numbers are juz OTT.

[@maxxie2231]

This kinda sad that he gone form home 100years and 500millions later he found out that his home were no longer exits. Respect.

[@ShadowVXMaster]

It won't be able to ever come back

[@stendaneel4879]

can't it possibly get a gravity assist to get enough speed?

[@JoyRideShorts]

They should've put Warp engines in Voyager bruh 🥴

[@KL-gi1rq]

Maybe in future humans will find faster traveling methods and again catch voyagers❤️🔥

[@marashdemnika5833]

In anticipation of further advances in space technology within the next few decades, Voyager 1 will eventually be recovered and showcased in a museum.

[@tasx1048]

Lets hope so

[@Trickey2413]

Delusional

[@RivithOi]

can make a Wall-E level movie from Voyager1's life story

[@toddcalhoun902]

Wow you always blow my mind it's space is so big I don't think our minds can even fathom how big it is it hurts to think about it

[@jonathanevans9600]

Put my body out there when I’m dead see how far I go

[@editedrectangle1385]

Interesting how so much awaites humanity

[@sridharl6528]

Didn't know milkyway had that strong of a gravity pull for requiring an escape velocity of 341m/s. Makes the concept of us being an intergalactic species unfathomably hard!

[@ViZiX7]

I wish there is like a super camera that captures every thing on the way. It will be very unbelievable and impossible. I am just imagining how coll is that.

[@buknasst4069]

So until space crafts can go that fast humans won't either, unless they do some gravitational trickery

[@jetpond7904]

Just need to build a spacecraft with the proper amount of delta-v

[@matthewiles5714]

The tune is Canon in D by Johann Pachelbel

[@painitful]

That moment when you care more about a satellite dish in space then anything else.

[@commonman5322]

Not the "Galaxy-ussy" 💀💀💀

[@taufanandriansyah7174]

77.bullion bullion thn cahaya

[@ashoknr348]

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[@stifler4eva1]

Imagine if voyager 1 or 2 gets into a wormhole.

[@conner9352]

It has won but at the cost of its creators

[@tyronekim3506]

Interesting information. What is the mass and radius of the Milkyway galaxy did you use to estimate the orbit of Voyager 1 around the Milkyway galaxy?

[@NoodleFlames]

Your videos are really humbling. Shows how irrelevant humans are in the grand scheme of things.

[@ChucksAstrophotography]

Glad you liked the vid!

[@tonylamontbillings6607]

@@sgvincent100 "The only species to exist" Hmmmmm.......? I'm quite sure other intelligent life elsewhere in the zillions of galaxies have said the same thing. Their probes are out there searching the universe as well. If planet earth was the only thing that produced life "as we know it" then the Big Bang was more of a thud because we're not doing too well as of late. Even our little spec of dust we call the Milky way takes millions of years to escape. If possible at all.

[@magicwithsafas523]

Is it me or did I felt sad just now

[@ChatterGaming]

Somewhere in another galaxy: *Yo Binkleton I found this cool umbrella* Weird design for an umbrella man. Let's use this to start a fire

[@angeltheebean]

That makes me sad and I don’t know why

[@Overcaffenated]

Thanks for ruining my day! 😥

[@rx_kouhai7217]

What is the name of the music?

[@PiXie232]

Is this due to the ultra massive black hole at the center of our Milky Way, that creates such a strong gravitational force? Is this what wouldn’t allow Voyager 1 and 2 to escape the Milky Way’s orbit? Awesome short, as usual! I had no idea about this! I would have thought they would’ve just gone on forever.. but it makes total sense now that you explained it!! I love your channel, Chuck!!✨

[@Hazylittlething]

So grateful for your videos! I look forward to them and learn a lot and I get to see fantastic things. Thank you kindly sir

[@yellowbananago]

This guy has w songs

[@Goddess_Infinity]

10.5 miles per second that’s insane