Astronomy / Space Voyager 2 "exits the solar system"

[Para Handy]

Voyager 2 passes the heliopause.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-46502820


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 trajectory meant that it was in "the space between the stars" six years before Voyager 2.

The news was revealed at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting in Washington.


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[Manticore]

And while its twin craft beat it to this boundary, the US space agency says that Voyager 2 has a working instrument aboard that will provide "first-of-its-kind observations of the nature of this gateway into interstellar space".

The probe's present location is some 18 billion km (11 billion miles) from Earth. It is moving at roughly 54,000km/h (34,000mph). Voyager 1 is further and faster still, at 22 billion km and 61,000km/h.

When we put our minds to it, humans can achieve the coolest things........... godspeed.

 

[Patrick_68000]

Now is the time to activate the hyperspace.