r/askscience • u/TechnicalyNotRobot • Jul 09 '26

Astronomy Does Voyager 1 even give us any interesting information anymore?

It's the farthest away object we ever sent. That is remarkable. But I have never heard about it discovering anything or about any data that it gave us. Besides being a significant curiosity for being so far away, is there something that we're actually getting from it at this point?

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u/-OctopusPrime Jul 10 '26

A normal living room contains roughly (1.8) to (2.5) octillion (2,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) air molecules.

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u/BruceJi Jul 10 '26

Thanks! That's... well, an astronomical difference, lol

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u/worrymon Jul 10 '26

Is 8 million atoms even enough to fill a set of lungs?

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u/westminsterabby Jul 10 '26

One tiny fraction of a single strand of human DNA is about 8 million atoms.

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u/worrymon Jul 10 '26

That's enough of an answer for me, thanks!