Raul Verdugo

ANG member and Small Business Owner

[KVOA News 4 Tucson @KVOA]

Jason Riegert, the former executive director of Academy Del Sol, faces dozens of felony charges after state investigators uncovered an alleged theft and fraud scheme. https://t.co/HSlkBBb2xu

[Black Hole @konstructivizm]

Voyager 1 will be one light-year from Earth around the year 19,874 AD.

That date is not science fiction. It is a straightforward consequence of distance, speed, and time. Humanity’s farthest spacecraft has already spent nearly half a century in flight. Even at its impressive velocity by earthly standards, it will still need almost 18,000 more years to cover the distance light travels in a single year.

From Grand Tour to interstellar space

Voyager 1 launched on September 5, 1977. Its original mission was a flyby of Jupiter and Saturn. Gravity assists from the giant planets flung the probe high above the ecliptic plane and onto a trajectory out of the solar system.

In 1998 it overtook Pioneer 10 and became the most distant human-made object. On August 25, 2012, it crossed the heliopause and entered interstellar space—the first spacecraft ever to do so.

As of late August 2026, Voyager 1 is about 25.65 billion kilometers from Earth (roughly 171.5 astronomical units). A radio signal takes nearly 23 hours and 46 minutes to travel one way.

A speed that looks fast—and is tiny

Relative to the Sun, Voyager 1 travels at about 16.9 km/s, or roughly 61,000 km/h. That works out to about 3.5–3.6 AU per year.

One light-year is 9.46 trillion kilometers. At the probe’s current speed it takes roughly 17,700 years to cover that distance. Counting from launch yields a date around 19,874 AD. Small differences among estimates come from the fact that the spacecraft is still slowly losing speed as it climbs out of the Sun’s gravity well, and Earth’s own orbit makes the Earth-to-spacecraft range oscillate slightly each year.

For perspective: Proxima Centauri, the nearest star, lies 4.24 light-years away. Even if Voyager 1 were headed straight toward it, the journey would take more than 70,000 years.

What happens tens of thousands of years from now

Voyager 1 is not aimed at any particular star. In about 40,000 years it will pass within 1.6–1.7 light-years of the star Gliese 445 (AC +79 3888) in the constellation Camelopardalis. That star itself will be approaching the Sun at the time.

By then the radioisotope thermoelectric generators will have long since exhausted their plutonium-238. Contact with Earth will already have ended in the 2030s. The spacecraft will become a silent messenger carrying the Golden Record—sounds of Earth, music, greetings in dozens of languages, and a map of the solar system’s position relative to nearby pulsars.

Why the milestone matters

One light-year is no longer merely “far.” It is the first truly interstellar distance that a human-built object will reach. Voyager 1 will be the first piece of Earth ever to sit that far from home.

It will still be deep inside the Milky Way. The galaxy is vast, and our probes remain slow by cosmic standards. Voyager 1 is both a triumph of 1970s engineering and a reminder of how slowly we currently travel between the stars.

Eighteen thousand years from now, whatever civilization exists on Earth will be unrecognizable. A small spacecraft launched in 1977 will still be coasting onward—cold, dark, and unimaginably distant—proof that we once dared to leave the solar system.

[KOLDNews @KOLDNews]

STOP HIKING IN HEAT! The @PimaSheriff said its Search & Rescue teams had a busy weekend. They rescued 16 people, and one had to be flown to a hospital for treatment. The PCSD said several hikers were found overheated and out of water.

[MentalidadFeroz @MentalidadFeroz]

Así Nace una Hernia Discal Dentro de tu Columna Vertebral😨🚨

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[Breaking911 @Breaking911]

🇺🇸 USA! USA! USA! 2-0

[FOX Sports @FOXSports]

Unbelievable scenes in Mexico City

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A high angle view of the Norway fan Viking row

[Raul Verdugo @RulyH9]

Happy Father's Day!

[Rep. Anna Paulina Luna @RepLuna]

Maybe not a popular take but I am calling for this guy to be pardoned. Unless the DOJ plans on going after all the crooks in congress currently insider trading, this is simply skewed justice. There is no “justice” when guys like this get the book thrown at him yet members are illegally profiting every day.

I don’t agree with what he did and he should be required to disgorge all the profits however, unless the DOJ plans on doing Congress next, this is not justice.

[Secretary Kennedy @SecKennedy]

Watch this historic announcement.

[Secretary Kennedy @SecKennedy]

Thank you, @joerogan, for helping bring national attention to these potentially life-saving treatments for veterans and others living with mental illness, and for pushing this conversation into the mainstream.

[Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives @dom_lucre]

🔥🚨DEVELOPING: A mind blowing drone light show depicting Jesus on the Cross was spotted in the skies of Manvel, Texas by The Church on Master’s Road. Thousands of drones were used to create this spectacle.

[VINCENT OSHANA @VincentOshana]

Iranian Uber Ride Goes Horribly Wrong

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🚨 JUST IN: Sec. Pete Hegseth announces he’s established a task force to AUDIT senior service colleges like the National Defense University and Army War College to RID them of DEI-like courses

Hegseth wants courses like “whiteness studies” replaced with WARFIGHTING and NATIONAL SECURITY courses

Hegseth is HELLBENT on getting rid of these work indoctrination camps.

[Pima County Republican Party @RealPimaGOP]

VOTE NO on Props 418 and 419 for a 0.5% tax discount.
The RTA program subsidizes Tucson's free buses where bus drivers have been attacked, passengers have been assaulted, and the bus has been used as a getaway vehicle.
Stop funding the drama.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Another Walmart pricing scandal

American takes Walmart Great Value brand cheese puffs right off the shelf and shows they’re sealed

The bag says it weighs .84 pounds (13.5oz)

When put on the scale, the bag only weighs .4 pounds (less than half)

Americans are being robbed blind

[Rep. Anna Paulina Luna @RepLuna]

Based on testimony today, I have enough evidence to believe both @GovTimWalz and @keithellison were knowingly complicit in a Somali fraud scheme in Minnesota.

Therefore I have referred them BOTH to the DOJ for criminal charges. May justice be swift. The American people are tired of being taken advantage of.

[USS Arizona @USSArizona]

This is the USS Arizona Memorial with USS Arizona below her as she appears today. A place of extreme reverence. #PearlHarbor84