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However, travelling at a warp factor of 9.9 from one end of the Milky Way galaxy – a body of hundreds of billions of stars that may stretch 150,000 to 200,000 light-years wide, according to a recent study – to the other could take 96 years. This last rate of travel is thousands of times faster than the physics of our Universe may ever permit.

Warp 9.9 makes Pluto less that a 10-second trip away, and Proxima Centauri an 18-hour cruise.

Proxima Centauri is still a weeklong voyage.

Warp 5 is about 213 times faster, making a sun-Pluto journey just 1 minute and 30 seconds long.

Meanwhile, Proxima Centauri – the nearest star to our own – is a dismal four years and three months away. At this light-speed rate, the ship would take 5 hours and 28 minutes just to reach Pluto, which is about 3.67 billion miles (5.9 billion kilometers) away from the sun.

Warp 1, or light speed, makes the Enterprise look like it's at a standstill over the sun.

The spaceship starts out at warp 1 and eventually accelerates to warp 9.9, or about 2,083 times light speed. O'Donoghue chose to depict the Enterprise flying away from the sun and across the solar system toward a finish line at Pluto. That scale suggests a warp factor of 1 is light speed (shown below between Earth and the moon) and the typical upper limit warp of 9.99 is more than 2,140 times light speed.

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However, Rick Sternbach and Michael Okuda – two technical advisers to The Next Generation series – published a technical manual in 1991 that includes some solid figures, and it's those numbers (vis-a-vis a Wikipedia page) that O'Donoghue said he leaned on for his animation.

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Over the more than 50 years of productions, different series and episodes and movies throw out conflicting numbers. There's no set-in-stone scale of "warp-factor" speeds in the "Star Trek" universe. What the new 'Star Trek' warp-speed animation shows – and why it's depressing Incidentally, a follow-on series titled Star Trek: Picard is scheduled to premiere on CBS All Access on January 23 and on Amazon Prime the following day, according to CNN. What Warp Speeds actually look like with real-distance and in real-time! Are these faster or slower than you thought? #scificomm #scicomm "I have genuinely felt a sense of despair at the distances involved in our solar system and beyond," O'Donoghue told Business Insider, adding: "It's been one of my aims to make everyone else feel as bad as me." The animated video above, which O'Donoghue posted on Twitter on Monday, is almost as deflating as the scientist's first set of popular animations. So O'Donoghue took the Federation starship USS Enterprise, commanded by Captain Jean-Luc Picard (played by Patrick Stewart) in Star Trek: The Next Generation, and sent it flying from the sun to Pluto at varying warp-speed velocities. After receiving widespread attention for those animations, he began wondering what going faster might look like in reality. O'Donoghue previously animated the speed of light within the solar system, and the results were depressing. He says the work gives him "a sense of despair" about travelling through space, even at superluminal speeds. This trouncing of theoretical physics makes reaching alien-rich planets across the galaxy seem like just a convenient TV-commercial-break-length trip away.īut a new animation by the planetary and space scientist James O'Donoghue, who used to work at NASA and is now employed by JAXA (Japan's national space agency), grounds the warp drives of those fictional spaceships in reality.