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Fly Along With Voyager

April 29, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Far away, deep in the dark, near the edge of interstellar space, Voyager 1 and 2 are hurtling near the tenuous edge of the magnetic bubble surrounding the Sun known as the heliosphere and NASA wants you to ride along. The [...]

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Scientists Say Voyager 1 Has Left the Solar System, But Has It Really?

March 20, 2013

A new paper out today reports that the Voyager 1 spacecraft appears to have traveled beyond the influence of the Sun and exited the heliosphere. However, the data they cite is the same as what NASA Voyager scientists claimed in December 2012 was just a new region at the edge of the solar system that [...]

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Voyager 1 May Have Left the Solar System

October 8, 2012

Number of particles from the Sun hitting Voyager 1. Credit: NASA While there’s no official word from NASA on this, the buzz around the blogosphere is that Voyager 1 has left the Solar System. The evidence comes from this graph, above, which shows the number of particles, mainly protons, from the Sun hitting Voyager 1 [...]

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Voyager Mission Is Cooling Its Jets

January 23, 2012

Or, more appropriately, Voyager 1 is cooling its instruments. To help conserve power, the mission managers at NASA have decided to cut the electricity to a heating element – one that’s part of the nearby infrared spectrometer that’s not been in operation for some 14 years. This power cut will lower the temperature of the [...]

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Heliopause

November 1, 2011

The heliopause is the theoretical boundary where the solar wind and interstellar wind counter balance each other. The area will remain a virtual mystery until Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 enter it on their way out of our solar system. Voyager 1 should be the first to arrive, entering in 2014. There are multiple theories [...]

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