Astronomer in progress

17 years old

An astronomer in progress since the age of seven

I'm basically a talking monkey on an organic spaceship flying through the universe at the speed of around 29 km/s. Ooh ooh ah ah.

If you want to kill me, you should do that by throwing me into a supermassive black hole. The tidal force wouldn’t kill me instantly.

Hey Peter

Currently reading: The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan

"When I was growing up it was really cool to be a scientist or engineer. We need to make science cool again." -Sally Ride

Spacecraft escaping the Solar System

This shows the current positions and other interesting data of the five spacecraft which are leaving the Solar System on escape trajectories - our first emissaries to the stars. On this scale, the nearest star to the Sun would be approximately 100 meters away, and it would take Voyager 1 about 70,000 years to cover that distance.