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In a Breathtaking First, NASA''s Voyager 1 Exits the Solar System

Voyager 1 left the solar system the same month that Curiosity, NASA''s state-of-the-art rover, landed on Mars and started sending home gorgeous snapshots. Curiosity''s exploration team, some 400

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The weird space that lies outside our Solar System

The solar wind surge reached Voyager 2 while it was still just inside our Solar System. A little more than a year later, the last gasps of the dying wind reached Voyager 1, which had crossed over

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5 NASA spacecraft that are leaving our solar system for good

The spacecraft may be zipping along at a breathtaking 35,000 mph, but they still will take many millennia to truly leave the solar system. Voyager 1''s course could take it close to another star

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ScienceShot: Has Voyager 1 Left the Solar System?

Cosmic ray intensities had been fluctuating for several weeks prior to 25 August, a sign that the Voyager craft may have been moving through the turbulent boundary of the solar system—or that the boundary may have been shifting back and forth in space, sweeping across the craft as it did so, due to variations in solar activity.

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5 space probes leaving the solar system (for now)

As of 2019, only five space probes are leaving the solar system: Pioneer 10, Pioneer 11, Voyager 1, Voyager 2, and New Horizons.The Voyagers already left the solar system and entered interstellar space (Voyager 1 on August 25, 2012, and Voyager 2 on November 5, 2018.The others also will leave the heliosphere (see notes 1) and reach interstellar space in a

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August 2012

Voyager 1 is the first man-made object to leave our solar system and pass into interstellar space. Scientists confirmed this finding a year later after studying Voyager''s data, which showed clear changes in the plasma or ionized gas right outside of the solar bubble.

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It''s Official! Voyager 1 Spacecraft Has Left Solar System

The study team wanted to know if Voyager 1 left the solar system sometime before April 2013, so they combed through some of the probe''s older data. They found a monthlong period of electron

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Where Are NASA''s Voyagers Now and What Happens to Them

Although Voyager 1 is in interstellar space, it hasn''t technically left the solar system. To do so, NASA says, it will need to pass beyond the Oort Cloud—a distant, spherical shell of icy

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Voyager 1 is leaving the solar system, but the journey

Voyager 1 is leaving the solar system, but the journey continues December 14 2012, by Kevin Orrman-Rossiter Voyager 1 has come across an unexpected region of the solar system – a

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Where Are Voyager 1 and 2 Now?

Eyes on Voyager. This near real-time 3D data visualization uses actual spacecraft and planet positions to show the location of both Voyager 1 and 2 and many other spacecraft exploring our galactic neighborhood.

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Voyager 1 is leaving the solar system, but the journey continues

Voyager 1 is leaving the solar system, but the journey continues. by Kevin Orrman-Rossiter, The Conversation. Voyager 1 has come across an unexpected region of the solar system – a "magnetic

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Nasa''s Voyager 2 probe ''leaves the Solar System''

The Voyager 2 probe, which left Earth in 1977, has become the second human-made object to leave our Solar System. It was launched 16 days before its twin craft, Voyager 1, but that probe''s faster

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Fixing Voyager: How NASA Restored Communications with

After more than four and a half decades exploring our solar system and beyond, Voyager 1 has had a challenging year. In November 2023, the spacecraft suddenly and unexpectedly

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Voyager 1''s Pale Blue Dot

Voyager 1 was speeding out of the solar system — beyond Neptune and about 3.7 billion miles (6 billion kilometers) from the Sun — when mission managers commanded it to look back toward home for a final time. It

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Did Voyager 1 Leave the Solar System or Not?

The thing about crossing into uncharted territory is that you may not know when, exactly, you have crossed into it. No one needs to tell that to the Voyager 1 spacecraft, which is currently at the center of a controversy about where the solar system ends and interstellar space begins. Today, a press release from the American Geophysical Union initially stated Voyager

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10 Things: Going Interstellar

Voyager 1 is escaping the solar system at a speed of about 3.5 AU per year, 35 degrees out of the ecliptic plane to the north, in the general direction of the solar apex (the direction of the Sun''s motion relative to nearby stars).

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10 Things: Going Interstellar

Voyager 1 is escaping the solar system at a speed of about 3.5 AU per year, 35 degrees out of the ecliptic plane to the north, in the general direction of the solar apex (the direction of the Sun''s motion relative to nearby stars). Voyager 1 will leave the solar system aiming toward the constellation Ophiuchus. In the year 40,272 CE (more than

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Sound as Voyager ''leaves Solar System''

The data acquired by Nasa''s Voyager 1 spacecraft as it left the Solar System has been converted into an audio file. The probe became the first manmade object to leave the Solar System and is now

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Voyager 1 Finally Leaves Solar System—for Real This Time

Based on abrupt changes in the apparent plasma density around the spacecraft, the researchers were even able to pinpoint August 25, 2012 as the most likely date that Voyager 1 left the solar...

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Voyager Finds Three Surprises Near Our Solar System''s Edge

A trio of surprise discoveries from NASA''s Voyager 1 spacecraft reveals intriguing new information about our solar system''s final frontier. The findings appear in the Sept. 23 issue of Science. The surprises come as the hardy, long-lived spacecraft approaches the edge of our solar system, called the heliopause, where the sun''s influence ends and the []

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Good news from Voyager 1, which is now out past the edge of the

The historic NASA probe launched in 1977 to explore Jupiter and Saturn. Then it just kept going. It''s now out beyond the edge of the solar system in the previously unexplored

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NASA''s Voyager 1 on verge of leaving solar system

(AP) PASADENA, Calif. — Thirty-five years after leaving Earth, Voyager 1 is reaching for the stars. Sooner or later, the workhorse spacecraft will bid adieu to the solar system and enter a new

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Voyager spacecraft are leaving the Solar System

Voyager 1 is departing the Solar System at a speed of 39,000 miles per hour. Voyager 2 is departing the Solar System at a speed of 35,000 miles per hour. Sometime in the next 10 years, the two spacecraft will cross an area known as the termination shock where the million-mile-per-hour solar wind slows to about 250,000 miles per hour.

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Leaving the Solar System: Q&A with Voyager 1 Chief Scientist Ed

Scientists announced today (Sept. 12) that NASA''s Voyager 1 spacecraft left the solar system in August 2012, popping free into interstellar space after 35 years of spaceflight.

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Good news from Voyager 1, which is now out past the edge of the solar

Good news from Voyager 1, which is now out past the edge of the solar system In mid-November, Voyager 1 suffered a glitch, and it''s messages stopped making sense. But the NASA probe is once again

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Voyager 1 becomes first human-made object to leave solar system

This image of Earth, dubbed "Pale Blue Dot," is a part of the first "portrait" of the solar system taken by Voyager 1. The spacecraft acquired a total of 60 frames for a mosaic of the solar system

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Images Voyager Took

The Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft explored Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune before starting their journey toward interstellar space. This narrow-angle color image of the Earth, dubbed ''Pale Blue Dot'', is a part of the first ever ''portrait'' of the solar system taken by Voyager 1. NASA/JPL-Caltech. Jupiter. Photography of Jupiter began in

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Voyager 1 Reconnects with NASA Using Backup Transmitter

NASA recently reestablished communication with Voyager 1 after the spacecraft unexpectedly switched to a backup radio transmitter, dormant since 1981. Positioned over 15 billion miles away

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Voyager 1 leaving solar system

Voyager 1 leaving solar system