How Long Would It REALLY Take to Escape the Solar System?
Right now, a spacecraft launched in 1977 is hurtling away from us at 38,000 miles per hour. It has been flying for almost five decades. And it has not even started leaving the solar system. Today we trace the real road out — past the heliopause, across frozen comet graveyards, through bubbles of plasma, toward a wall of light itself.
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