How long would it take to leave the solar system?

At its current speed, it will take roughly 15,000 years to cover one light year and will take about 40,000 years before the Voyagers come close to another star.
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How long would it take to leave the solar system at light speed?

Just beyond the cloud's outer edges is the halfway point between our sun and the next nearest star, Proxima Centauri. Beyond that, and you're swapping systems. So, in boring astrological terms, it'd take you nearly two years to reach the outer boundary of our solar system if you were traveling at the speed of light.
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Is it possible to leave the solar system?

Technically, it is possible for humans to become an interstellar species, but it may take hundreds if not thousands of years to achieve this. There are ways humans could reach the stars, but we need time to develop this technology, and it isn't possible; we simply don't have the time.
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Will Voyager 1 ever stop?

Voyager 1 is expected to keep its current suite of science instruments on through 2021. Voyager 2 is expected to keep its current suite of science instruments on through 2020.
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Will Voyager 1 leave the Milky Way?

It is doubtful that the spacecraft will ever be able to leave the Milky Way, as they would have to attain a velocity of 1000 kilometers/second, and unless they get a huge, huge, huge velocity boost from something unexpected, they will probably end up being in the Milky Way's rotation forever.
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Do you age if you travel at the speed of light?

The simple answer is, anything moving through space at c, equal to the speed of light in a vacuum, experiences zero time flow. If you were to travel at the speed of light, you would experience no time.
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Will humanity ever leave the galaxy?

The technology required to travel between galaxies is far beyond humanity's present capabilities, and currently only the subject of speculation, hypothesis, and science fiction. However, theoretically speaking, there is nothing to conclusively indicate that intergalactic travel is impossible.
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How far is Blackhole from Earth?

The EHT team's results are being published today in a special issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters. Because the black hole is about 27,000 light-years away from Earth, it appears to us to have about the same size in the sky as a donut on the Moon.
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What will happen to Earth in 5 billion years?

Scientists have long known the fate of our solar system – and likely the fate of Earth itself. In a few billion years, the Sun will run out of fusion fuel and expand to a “red giant” phase, likely swallowing everything in the solar system up to the orbit of Mars.
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Are we orbiting a black hole?

But again, no worries, we are still a very long way away from the black hole at the center of our galaxy, and won't be getting anywhere near it. Scientists also want to use VERA to look at many more objects, including ones that are close to the black hole.
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What is a white black hole?

White holes are theoretical cosmic regions that function in the opposite way to black holes. Just as nothing can escape a black hole, nothing can enter a white hole. White holes were long thought to be a figment of general relativity born from the same equations as their collapsed star brethren, black holes.
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Is time Travelling possible?

Yes, time travel is indeed a real thing. But it's not quite what you've probably seen in the movies. Under certain conditions, it is possible to experience time passing at a different rate than 1 second per second. And there are important reasons why we need to understand this real-world form of time travel.
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What is inside a black hole?

The singularity at the center of a black hole is the ultimate no man's land: a place where matter is compressed down to an infinitely tiny point, and all conceptions of time and space completely break down. And it doesn't really exist.
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Is an hour in space 7 years on Earth?

The first planet they land on is close to a supermassive black hole, dubbed Gargantuan, whose gravitational pull causes massive waves on the planet that toss their spacecraft about. Its proximity to the black hole also causes an extreme time dilation, where one hour on the distant planet equals 7 years on Earth.
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Is Twin Paradox real?

Q: Does the twin paradox exist? The twin paradox is real as the traveling twin will see the Earth clock moving as slowly as the twin on the Earth. Yes, it is real but shouldn't really be called a paradox. Q: How is special relativity different from general relativity?
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How fast can humans travel without dying?

Most of us can withstand up to 4-6G. Fighter pilots can manage up to about 9G for a second or two. But sustained G-forces of even 6G would be fatal. Astronauts endure around 3G on lift-off, one G of which is Earth's own pull.
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Will Mars ever be habitable?

The habitability of Mars is limited by its small size, according to new research by Washington University in St. Louis planetary scientists. This artist's impression shows how Mars may have looked about 4 billion years ago.
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Who discovered Earth?

The first person to determine the size of Earth was Eratosthenes of Cyrene, who produced a surprisingly good measurement using a simple scheme that combined geometrical calculations with physical observations. Eratosthenes was born around 276 B.C., which is now Shahhat, Libya.
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How cold is outer space?

Hot things move quickly, cold things very slowly. If atoms come to a complete stop, they are at absolute zero. Space is just above that, at an average temperature of 2.7 Kelvin (about minus 455 degrees Fahrenheit).
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Does the past still exist?

In short, space-time would contain the entire history of reality, with each past, present or future event occupying a clearly determined place in it, from the very beginning and for ever. The past would therefore still exist, just as the future already exists, but somewhere other than where we are now present.
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Do wormholes exist?

Wormholes are shortcuts in spacetime, popular with science fiction authors and movie directors. They've never been seen, but according to Einstein's general theory of relativity, they might exist.
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Is time an illusion?

According to theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli, time is an illusion: our naive perception of its flow doesn't correspond to physical reality. Indeed, as Rovelli argues in The Order of Time, much more is illusory, including Isaac Newton's picture of a universally ticking clock.
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What is on the other side of a Blackhole?

The discovery of light from the other side of a black hole was predicted by Einstein's theory of general relativity. But it has never actually happened before, and the discovery marks the first time that light has ever been directly observed coming from behind a black hole.
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Are we in a white hole?

The short answer, unfortunately, is no. White holes are really just something scientists have imagined — they could exist, but we've never seen one, or even seen clues that one may exist. For now, they are an idea.
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