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An astrophysicist explains why even if you were right next to the Voyager probes 15 billion miles from the sun you could still see them

Reddit users asked: If you were in space near the Voyager probes, would you be able to see them?

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When Voyager 1 launched in 1977, it began an indefinite journey into space, serving as an envoy for humankind.

Today, it’s the farthest manmade object from Earth, orbiting over 15 billion miles from the sun in interstellar space.

If you were out there, where everything we know is so far away and life itself is foreign, would you even be within the influence of our sun?

From such a distance, could you actually see anything out there, or is it all eternal blackness?

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A user on the forum Reddit asked that very question: If we were somehow able to stand next to Voyager 1 in space, would we be able to see it?

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