A photo of Saturn taken by the NASA probe Voyager 1 on November 16, 1980.

A photo of Saturn taken by the NASA probe Voyager 1 on November 16, 1980.  The spacecraft, nearly 11 billion miles from the Sun, will shortly become the first human-made object to leave the Solar System and enter a region of interstellar space dubbed “cosmic purgatory.”

Where no one has gone before.

(Photo: Voyager 1 / NASA via the Telegraph)