Voyager 1

[Slim]

I was getting quite annoyed listening to 5 Live's Drive programme while out on a bike yesterday. The two presenters were chattering between themselves and asking if was near the edge of the galaxy? or perhaps the universe? And throughout the programme when the subject came up the rhetoric was that it was "out there in the universe" and so on.

But as Picnic points out, it's still very close to Earth in cosmological terms. If you imagine our planet to be the monument at Charing Cross Station and the edge of the galaxy to be the nearest part of the M25, it's travelled about 2mm.