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Voyager 1 is almost one light day away, and now my brain hurts thinking about it.
How many hard days is that?
Roughly just under one work day.
Pluto is only about 4.5 light hours away on average
1 light year = 63241.077 AU (distance between Sun and Earth)
Distance of Voyager 1 from Earth: ~162.84 AU
Not even close.
Sources:
He said day, not year.
Makes me miss the old sub /r/ConfidentlyIncorrect. I need to see if that exists on Lemmy anywhere.
Edit: Sure does: !confidently_incorrect@lemmy.world
Hahahaha!! 🤣🤣
I'm pretty sure I read light year initially. Maybe OP modified their comment?
I could've have misread it also. 🤷♂️
It would say (edited) if they edited their comment
Ah alright then. My bad.
Would you say it is about 1/365th the the distance of a light year? I wonder if there is a term for that...
One light day?
But it's a leap year so it should be longer this year.
Aaannnd I get to post this https://m.xkcd.com/2897/
You broke and reinforced relativity at the same time
Also, just for anyone else, the Sun is not 1 light year away from Earth, instead ~499 light seconds.
The distance between the sun and earth is ~93 million miles. A light year is 5.88 trillion miles. We are not 1 light year away from the sun. We are about 8.5 mins from the sun (speed of light) right?