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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It’s like if you and a friend threw a tiny pebble at a random direction and you both are 50 yards apart what are the odds of them hitting each other. Space is like that be they are more like 200 miles apart.

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