How to participate in NASA's Shine Bright for Voyager's Light-Day celebration

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 On November 17, NASA is inviting people worldwide to take part in a special tribute to Voyager 1 by shining lights toward the night sky. The celebration comes just one day before the spacecraft reaches an extraordinary milestone: becoming the first human-made object to travel one full light-day away from Earth.

On November 18, Voyager 1 will be approximately 16.09 billion miles away. At that distance, even a signal traveling at the speed of light needs 24 hours to reach the spacecraft.

Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 has spent nearly five decades exploring the unknown. Now traveling through interstellar space, it continues carrying the Golden Record—a collection of sounds, music, images, and greetings representing life on Earth.

To celebrate this historic achievement, NASA’s global “Shine Bright for Voyager’s Light-Day” campaign encourages people to flash the spacecraft’s call sign, VGR, in Morse code using flashlights, phones, and other lights.

Nearly 50 years after leaving our planet, Voyager 1 reminds us just how far human curiosity can reach.

NASA– National Aeronautics and space Administration