Hello, Voyager!
On December 25, 2020, New Horizons pointed its Long Range Reconnaissance Imager in the general direction of NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft (circled in yellow). Voyager 1—the farthest human-built object and the first spacecraft to leave our solar system—cannot be seen in the photo, but it’s a cool image nonetheless. The two probes were roughly 11.2 billion miles (18 billion kilometers) apart when the image was taken, with Voyager 1 being around 14.1 billion miles (22.7 billion km) from the Sun. New Horizons is expected to leave our solar system in the 2040s.
