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Voyager 1 to reach one light-day from Earth

Original: Voyager 1 is 25.80 billion km/16.03 billion miles away from Earth and will reach 1 light-day from Earth in 35 days, 18 h

NASA's Voyager 1, now about 25.8 billion kilometres (16.03 billion miles) from Earth, is on course to reach a distance of one light-day — the distance light travels in a full day — in roughly 35 days and 18 hours. Its twin Voyager 2 sits farther behind at about 21.6 billion kilometres. The milestone would mark the first time a human-made object is a full light-day away, a striking reminder of how far the 1977 probes have travelled.

Why now: Space enthusiasts are tracking Voyager 1 approaching the symbolic milestone of being one light-day from Earth for the first time.

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