00:03The Voyager probes were launched way back in 1977 and are currently the farthest human-made objects from Earth.
00:10Voyager 1 is an unfathomable 15 billion miles from the Sun, meaning it's also the only human-made object to
00:16ever reach interstellar space.
00:18Out there it's pretty dark, so if you were jetting through space right next to the probe, would you even
00:23be able to see it?
00:24According to experimental astrophysicist at the Rochester Institute of Technology,
00:28Michael Zemkov, you would, but how well? According to him, at that distance light from the Sun would be far
00:34less intense, but the Sun is still very, very bright.
00:36He says after crunching the numbers, the light on Voyager is around 25,000 times less bright than on Earth.
00:42That sounds pretty dark, but Zemkov says that's still 15 times brighter than a night with a full moon.
00:47He added that while the colors of the space probe wouldn't be as clear, you could probably still read under
00:52that amount of light.
00:53What's more, it would still be visible as it continues to transit further into interstellar space.
00:57And you would likely have enough light to see it way out there for several hundred, if not thousands of
01:02years.
01:03With Zemkov adding that in comparison to the universe, quote,
01:06The point is, in terms of that distance, light Voyager has hardly gotten anywhere.
01:11The point is, it has enforcement, right?
01:11The point is, since you have noия yet, far as you are nothing.
01:16You might be familiar with me.
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