What Will Happen to Voyager and Others in the Far Future?

Currently, there are at least five manmade objects that are on a one-way journey out of the solar system but where will these go, will they just go on forever, will they crash into a star or planet in the far distant future long after we, our earth and sun has long ceased to exist. In this video, we will see just what is going where and what the future holds for them.

Written researched and presented by Paul Shillito
Images and footage : TWR, NASA, Richard Kruse, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), The Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory (APL)

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[Narrowgaugefilms]

Many million years from now one of the Voyagers will be in a science museum on some planet unspeakably far away from here. There will be a sign in front of the display in a language we can't interpret that translates to "This object was found adrift in space and recovered. It is our best evidence for existence of alien civilizations".

[BB-srou]

My father worked at the Cornell University Theory Center alongside Carl Sagan on the Voyager projects. He was one of many on Sagan's team. Cornell's Theory Center is where the gold records were created. At the time, the center had one of the world's largest super computers. My dad passed in 2012 and it makes me proud to know that he was apart of something like this.

[AdamsWorlds]

Its mind boggling to me how we managed to get so far and so fast in the 60s and 70s. We went in the 1800s from no trains, no cars, no flight, could not even mass produce various metals.. to building space craft and slingshoting around planets. Madness, what a species we are.

[christopher]

I've been a passionate amateur astronomer since the age of 12...and I'll never forget the first color photos of Jupiter (my favorite planet telescopically) returned by the Pioneer probes.

That little ovoid disk I'd always seen through the eyepiece...with it's bands of clouds and storms and the GRS just visible...was suddenly revealed as such a huge, colorful and dynamic place.

I thought it was fantastic...and it was.

And we have now visited every planet in the solar system...have probes orbiting planets even now; and rovers driving over the landscape of Mars.

We've visited comets and landed on asteroids.

It's a privilege to be alive to see this.

[marcseen]

Well, in 100 billion years from now, there's one thing for sure, the Voyager spacecraft definitely WON'T get any more software updates!

[EtienneSturm]

the grand tour is simply the MOST IMPRESSIVE
mission NASA ever came up with. I'm a huge fan

[morgangallowglass]

Being old enough to recall the launches of these marvels, it makes me smile to think they are still out there. Another cracking shirt, sir!

[wahoo]

We all know the answer to this…. Voyager will fall into a black hole and emerge on the far side of the galaxy where it will meet a very advanced race of machines. They will give Voyager an immense cloud vessel and send it back across the galaxy to find its creator.

[MurCurieux]

The vastness of space always inspires me and at the same time fills me with dread.

[andersjjensen]

Unfashionable part of the western spiral arm? Someone bough stock in the eastern spiral arm and want to manipulate prices, I

[johngalt]

Your shirts prove that our Spiral arm will always be fashionable 😅

[nigeldepledge]

I like the nod to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

"Far out in the uncharted regions of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the galaxy lies a small, unregarded yellow sun . . ."

[neoncyber]

I love that you threw in that line from the Hitch Hikers Guide at the end!

[ToneWalt]

It just blows my mind when I think about the distance these things have travelled.

[RobCLynch]

We think that we live for a long time, marvelling at our average lifespan of 78 years. Yet, it eventually becomes clear that we are just blips on a tiny scale, compared with the age of the universe.

[bosonbreeder]

Poor Voyager 1. One really is the loneliest number.

[emergingloki]

I love how Hitchhikers just keeps making cameos across the astrophysics and astronomy scene. Sleep well Doug.

[benjaminwilson]

"Everything" is succinctly put into perspective when distance and especially time is the common denominator. How humbling!😮

[LordMacBeth]

You finished with the late GREAT Douglas Adams! Thank you Sir! You made me smile, laugh and also cry a little.:) You are a gentleman and a scholar!

[PychoFox]

Wow, nobody ever mentions the spin weights! Nice work.