This is referred the heliosphere, with the actual boundary called the heliopause. It’s poorly understood, but it’s what stops cosmic rays from striking Earth and mutating DNA, which would wipe ...
Voyager 1 was launched waaaaaay back in 1977. I would have been 4 years old then! It’s an incredible achievement that ...
This indicated that it had crossed the "heliopause" - the term for the outer edge of the Sun's protective bubble of particles and magnetic field. And while its twin craft beat it to this boundary ...
Voyager 1 has traveled further than any human-made object, crossing the heliopause and heading into interstellar space. While doing this, it has continued to send back useful data to Earth ...
The boundary between the two regions is known as the heliopause. "We saw the plasma density at the heliopause jump by a very large amount - a factor of 20, at this rather sharp boundary out there ...
A short clip of music created from plasma data recorded as Voyager 1 crossed the heliopause, the region between inside and outside the Sun’s area of influence ...
NASA asked Johnson to look into a 20-year mission, not to a star but to the edge of interstellar space—to the region known as the heliopause, several times as far as Pluto, where the sun’s ...
Although mostly empty, it contains thin gas, dust and cosmic rays. This area starts where a star’s influence—such as the Sun’s solar wind—ends at the heliopause. Having crossed this boundary in August ...
Since 2012, Voyager 1 has been in interstellar space, having broken through the heliopause. Voyager 2 did the same in 2018. Both are traveling at over 30,000 mph, making them the fastest objects ...
After 47 years and 15 billion miles, the Plasma Science Experiment aboard NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft has been turned off. NASA’s twin Voyager spacecraft were originally designed for a four-year ...
Until then, it's cruising through the void between the stars. Voyager 1 crossed the heliopause in 2012 and is drifting through interstellar space at the edge of our Milky Way galaxy, which has a ...
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