The Final Place Voyager 2 Will Reach Before It Dies
🌌 "The farthest object we have ever built is not dying. It is just beginning its longest, quietest journey—through the space between the stars."Voyager 2 is now 12.8 billion miles from Earth, moving at 34,000 mph [citation:3][citation:6]. Its instruments are shutting down one by one to conserve power, and by the 2030s, it will go silent forever [citation:4][citation:5][citation:6]. But silence is not the end. Before it dies, Voyager 2's final place is not a star, but a ghost—it will drift past the star Ross 248 in about 40,000 years, passing within 1.65 light-years [citation:12]. After that…
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