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?
In: Planetary Science
there is nothing there to crash into.
space is basically empty. just think about how big stars look in comparison to the blackness that surounds them. and each of them is HUGE, as big as our star.
As for gravity, gravity decreases wwith diatance squared. even at earths orbit, the suns gravity hardly affects us. it takes a full year to pull earth around once, and voiager is moving fast enough to escape it entirly.
you have to be a really good shot to hit anything in space at all.
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