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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Crash into what bro? Space is unimaginably vast. Not like the movies at all. Asteroid fields in real life are so spread apart that there’s no real way you’d actually run much of a risk of hitting one, there’s nothing out there, man.

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