The Roadster and "Starman" are somewhere out there in the galaxy, floating in the eternal darkness of space. You can still catch a glimpse of it via livestream before it sinks into deep space. Robotic telescopes will attempt to capture the last images of Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster and SpaceX's dummy "Starman" before they travel into the depths of outer space.

The Roadster has a built-in camera to document and record its orbiting of the Earth and travel to Mars, but the livestream on YouTube was pulled days ago. SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk's last post regarding the Roadster was on Feb. 8.

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After it was launched by the Falcon Heavy's powerful boost, the Roadster drifted into space and orbited the Sun. It exceeded the Mars orbit and continued to traverse the asteroid belt. NASA has officially added the Roadster to its Artificial Objects Catalog and continues to keep tabs on the vehicle.

Barring it becoming sentient and returning to Earth or crashing into something, the Roadster will likely live out its days in orbit around the sun. Elon Musk stated in his tweet that his personal red Tesla Roadster with a dummy in a space suit called “Starman” will travel through deep space for more than a billion years. The car is supposed to reference the song of the same name, that of “Starman,” played by David Bowie.

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Dr Hanno Rein and colleagues, ran a computer simulation 240 times to understand how the Tesla's orbit would evolve over the course of 3.5 million years.

"We did not know what to expect because the other near-Earth objects we see in space are asteroids and typically come from further out in the Solar System. In this case, it's the reverse. We know the object comes from Earth, so the question is where it will go from here," Dr Rein, an assistant professor at the University of Toronto, told BBC News.

There's very little chance of the Tesla hitting other asteroids, but over time, the vehicle's appearance might change "dramatically" as it's peppered by very tiny micrometeorites.

Via The Virtual Telescope Project