In roughly 40,000 years, Voyager 1 will pass within about 1.6 light-years of Gliese 445.
Gliese 445 is a small red dwarf in the constellation Camelopardalis. Voyager 1 is not aimed at the star and will not enter orbit around it; the probe will simply make a distant pass as both the spacecraft and the star continue moving through the galaxy.
The encounter sounds closer than it is. A distance of 1.6 light-years is vastly farther than the Solar System’s planetary region, and Voyager 1 will take tens of thousands of years to reach that vicinity. Gliese 445 is currently about 17 light-years from Earth, but its own motion toward the Solar System helps make it the future near-passage star.
Barnard’s Star, Proxima Centauri, and Ross 248 are also famous nearby stars associated with spacecraft trajectories or future encounters, which makes them easy distractors. Voyager 1’s best-known projected stellar pass is Gliese 445, while Voyager 2 has a different long-term trajectory.