NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is talking nonsense. Its friends on Earth are worried

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Voyager 1 is almost one light day away, and now my brain hurts thinking about it.

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.

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He said day, not year.

I'm pretty sure I read light year initially. Maybe OP modified their comment?

I could've have misread it also. 🤷‍♂️

Would you say it is about 1/365th the the distance of a light year? I wonder if there is a term for that...

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?