Why Reaching Pluto Is Nothing Compared To Proxima Centauri

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Pluto once felt like the edge of the universe.
When NASA’s New Horizons probe reached Pluto after a 9-year journey across billions of miles, it was considered one of humanity’s greatest engineering achievements. But compared to Proxima Centauri — the closest star to our Solar System — Pluto is practically next door.

In this video, we explore the brutal physics that make interstellar travel almost impossible and
why a Pluto mission is fundamentally different from reaching another star,
why generation ships may be humanity’s only realistic option,,what Voyager discovered beyond the heliopause. And to end howhow cosmic rays destroy spacecraft over time,why slowing down is harder than speeding up,and why even our fastest probes would need tens of thousands of years to reach Proxima Centauri.
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