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 very empty. It’s not like the movies where the asteroid fields look like a cave system.

The chances of you actually hitting something, especially in interstellar space, is incredibly tiny.

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