Voyager 1 crossed into interstellar space in August 2012, yet it remains inside the gravitational reach of our Sun — true departure from the solar system, via the Oort Cloud, won’t happen for 30,000 years
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Space DailyVoyager 1 crossed into interstellar space in August 2012, yet it remains inside the gravitational reach of our Sun — true departure from the solar system, via the Oort Cloud, won’t happen for 30,000 yearsspacedaily.comVoyager 1 is already in interstellar space. NASA states that the spacecraft crossed into that region in August 2012, after passing beyond the heliopause: the boundary where the Sun’s outward-flowing bubble of particles and magnetic fields gives way to the interstellar environment. That sounds like departure. In one important sense, it is. Voyager 1 became […] The post Voyager 1 crossed into interstellar space in August 2012, yet it remains inside the gravitational reach of our Sun — true departure from the solar system, via the Oort Cloud, won’t happen for 30,000 years appeared first on Space Daily .
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