Far from home. Voyager 1 is now farther than anything man has sent into space

NASA's Voyager 1, which is the furthest man-made object from Earth, is set to reach a new milestone this week. On Wednesday, the probe will be roughly 16 billion miles from Earth.

<img src='https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/5062x3375+0+0/resize/5062x3375!/quality/85/format/webp/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnpr-production-npr.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Fb1%2F22%2Fdf2ccdf7425b9e9fd2adf7d753e0%2Fap25064678056736.jpg' alt='This illustration provided by NASA depicts Voyager 1.'/><p>NASA's Voyager 1, which is the furthest man-made object from Earth, is set to reach a new milestone this week. On Wednesday, the probe will be roughly 16 billion miles from Earth.</p><p>(Image credit: AP)</p><img src='https://media.npr.org/include/images/tracking/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=nx-s1-6041716' />