How do long range space probes not crash into things?

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How do long range space probes like Voyager 1 anticipate traveling through space for hundreds or thousands of years without hitting something, getting pulled into something’s gravity and crashing, etc?

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Space is so mind-bogglingly empty, you can look at a star 5 BILLION light years away, and the only reason that you can even see that star is that there is NOTHING between that star and your eyeball.

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