Did Voyager 1 leave the Milky Way? No, Voyager 1 did not leave the Milkey Way. And it never will. It will orbit the center of the Milky Way Galaxy until it collides with something or disintegrates. Disintegration though radiation and friction (even one atom per cubic centimeter adds up over billions of kilometers and millions of years) is actually the most likely fate.
Does Voyager 1 still send pictures?
No. The Voyagers are so far away that there’s nothing to take a picture of.
Did Voyager 1 leave the Milky Way? Nearly 30 years ago, Voyager 1 took one last set of photos before shutting off the camera. That’s where the famous “pale blue dot” photo comes from. You can see Earth (the “pale blue dot”), about halfway down the brownish stripe on the right. Earth is only about an eighth the size of a single pixel in this image. They’re now three times as far away. There’s just nothing to see.
Theoretically, it could – but there are lots of practical reasons it probably never will.
First off, Voyager is low on power and many instruments are already shut down – including the camera. It’s not been used for close to 30 years, so whether it could be aimed, or whether the camera would still function – is debatable. There’s the extra power needed to do that, probably repositioning of the probe – and with that the possibility of damaging it or losing contact altogether
Secondly – Voyager is so far away and communicating so slowly that it would probably takes weeks, if not months to send a single picture in digital form -(more power expended too).
Thirdly – and possibly the most important reason, there’s not really anything for it to a take a photo of. One very bright star – and lot of less bright ones! All in all, it’s safe to say that Voyager’s photographic career finished with “The Pale Blue Dot” image. And that’s not a bad way to sign of.
What would happen if aliens do find Voyager 1 or 2?
I think it would be very unlikely to have an impact. Let’s examine two scenarios; either the aliens find the probe relatively soon (i.e. while it’s still in the vicinity of our solar system), or they find it in the very distant future when it passes by some other solar system.
In the first case, if the aliens found the probe they probably already knew we were here. Space is absolutely immense, and the probability of just randomly stumbling on a probe like Voyager 1 is essentially zero. The aliens would only find it if they were actively searching for a probe, in which case they would have almost certainly already seen some other evidence of our existence.
The reason I say this is that we put a lot of signals out into space, both intentionally and as a side effect of things like radio. The Voyager probes send a pretty weak signal, so if the aliens could pick up on that they could pick up on our other broadcasts.
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Now let’s look at the second case. The Voyager probes will just keep floating out into space indefinitely, and will eventually be very far from our solar system. However, this takes a long time. Voyager 1 will take approximately 80,000 years just to go 4.2 light-years, the distance to Proxima Centauri (although it’s not actually aimed in that direction).
By the time these probes reach any advanced aliens that may not have already found us, we will probably either be advanced enough for interstellar travel ourselves or simply be dead as a species. If the probe somehow managed to get caught by a planet with primitive life on it, it would just burn up in the atmosphere and look like any other shooting star.
Where is Voyager 1 and 2 right now (exact location)?
Did Voyager 1 leave the Milky Way? Voyager 1 and 2 will gradually wander from our immediate solar neighborhood, but never the Milky Way, as they have not achieved galactic escape velocity, a staggering 1,955,000kmh (1,215,000mph) at our radius. The probes will instead do as we do; orbit the center of the Milky Way at almost exactly the same speed as the Sun, 828,000kmh (514,000mph).
Their relatively modest yet record-setting heliocentric recession velocities of 64,000kmh (40,000mph) lost in margins of error, the Voyagers will complete one galactic orbit or “great cosmic year” approximately every 226,000,000 years.
Did Voyager 1 leave the Milky Way?
No, and it probably never will.
Did Voyager 1 leave the Milky Way? In order to leave the milky way voyager 1 would have to attain a velocity of approximately 1000 km/s and unless this happens it’s going to orbit around the centre of the milky way galaxy. However, voyager 1 left our solar system on August 25, 2012 and is now traveling towards the core of our galaxy.