Tag: Outer space

  • Voyager Enters Interstellar Space

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    PBS NEWSHOUR EXTRA passes along NASA’s announcement that the Voyager 1 spacecraft has reached interstellar space. The scientists working on the Voyager 1 mission say the spacecraft entered interstellar space on or around August 25, 2012. They estimate that Voyager 1 is 11 billion miles from Earth, which puts it beyond all of the planets…

  • Voyager 1 in strange magnetic boundary zone at edge of solar system

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    By Irene Klotz, ioLscitech Cape Canaveral – Reports last summer that Nasa’s long-lived Voyager 1 space probe had finally left the solar system turned out to be a bit premature, scientists said on Thursday. Rather, the spacecraft, which was launched in 1977 for a five-year mission to study Jupiter and Saturn, has found itself in…