We tend to think Voyager 1 has already left the solar system, but it has only crossed beyond the Sun’s protective plasma bubble — NASA says it will take another 300 years to reach the inner edge of the Oort Cloud, and perhaps 30,000 years to pass beyond t
Voyager 1 is in interstellar space. It is also still inside the Solar System. Those statements appear contradictory only because there is no single physical line that can serve every meaning of the…
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