The Voyager 1 space probe was launched in 1977. It took 35 years for the probe to leave our solar system. It is now nearly twice the distance from Pluto to the Sun (about 12 billion miles). It is one of the fastest objects scientists and engineers have made, traveling at about 61,000 km/hr. At this velocity, it will take nearly 40,000 years before Voyager 1 makes its nearest approach to another star (9.3 trillion miles). Based on this data, which statement best summarizes the size and scale of the solar system and Earth's stellar neighborhood? The most distant objects in the solar system are stars. The distances between the planets in the solar system are larger than the distances between stars. The solar system is much larger than stars outside the solar system. The distances between stars is extremely large compared to the distances within the solar system.