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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There’s nothing to crash into. 

The asteroid belt?  Yeah, million+ miles between asteroids. After that? Nothin. 

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