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Will Voyager 1 and 2 or New Horizons eventually will exit our galaxy and take a picture of our galaxy in our?

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  1. Voyager 1 is the most distant space probe currently and nothing is likely to catch it (at least nothing we have in space now).

    Voyager 1 has only just reached the termination shock (edge of our solar system) to head off into interstellar space. At a bit more than 106 AU from the sun it has taken it 30 years just to get that far (travels about 3.5 AU/year).  

    To put that into perspective the nearest star to the earth (Proxima Centauri) is 271,000 AU from our sun so it would take Voyager-1 over 77,400 years to get there (if it was traveling in that direction).

    So, getting out of the galactic plane for a look back to our galaxy would take a staggering amount of time.  The probe will fail long before it gets much of anywhere.


  2. You can go to the site listed below to follow the progress of NASA's missions to the outer regions of our Solar system.

    I think these are just simulations but with a little work you can find the real thing.

  3. They will long since have used up all their power.  The fact they're still operating has far exceeded the wildest expectations.

    I believe by now they have left the solar system, or are about to.

  4. Possibly, in several million years, they may leave our galaxy, though I doubt the cameras will still be working!

  5. No, on several levels. One, their speeds and courses are such that they won't even get near another star for millions of years. Then, leaving the galaxy would take many millions more years. And, their power supplies will run out in well under a decade.

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