It takes light a single day to travel 16 billion miles. The Voyager 1 probe will need a little longer, just 49 years.
This means that it would still take a little over four whole years of traveling at lightspeed to reach the red dwarf—not that ...
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Looking Beyond Voyager 1 And 2

NASA has explored the space beyond Earth and our solar system with spacecraft like Voyagers 1 and 2, and how we’ve discovered ...
Voyager 1 is already the first human spacecraft to reach interstellar space and the farthest human-made object from Earth.